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Fiddlehead Cellars — Sta. Rita Hills Winery & Tasting Room

Santa Barbara County / Sta. Rita Hills · Sta. Rita Hills AVA
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Hours
By appointment only
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Phone
(805) 688-2425
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Tasting Fee
From $30
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Reservations
Required
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Est.
1989

About Fiddlehead Cellars

Fiddlehead Cellars is named for the fiddlehead — the tightly coiled young frond of a fern before it unfurls into its full expression. Kathy Joseph's botanical naming declares wine as fiddlehead: compact coiled potential that spirals open in the glass, revealing complexity that wasn't obvious at first. The fern's fiddlehead form — the mathematical spiral, the Fibonacci sequence expressed in plant material — carries a deeper aesthetic resonance.

Kathy Joseph's Sta. Rita Hills and Willamette Valley Pinot Noir program sources from opposite ends of the Pacific Coast's Pinot Noir growing zones — California's southernmost serious Pinot site and Oregon's most celebrated — producing wines that reveal the range of what Pacific maritime cool-climate Pinot Noir can achieve. Wine Advocate has scored Fiddlehead's Pinot Noir at 90–93 points.

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Fiddlehead Cellars isFiddlehead Cellars is named for the fiddlehead — the tightly coiled young frond of a fern before it unfurls into its full expression.
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Kathy Joseph's botanicalKathy Joseph's botanical naming declares wine as fiddlehead: compact coiled potential that spirals open in the glass, revealing complexity that wasn't obvious at first.
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The fern's fiddleheadThe fern's fiddlehead form — the mathematical spiral, the Fibonacci sequence expressed in plant material — carries a deeper aesthetic resonance.
"Kathy Joseph's 1989 Santa Barbara County fiddlehead-fern-botanical-naming Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc estate — Fiddle"
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Featured Wines

Pinot Noir
Sta. Rita Hills Pinot Noir
Sta. Rita Hills / Fiddlehead Estate
Fiddlehead's fern-botanical-spiral-naming Sta. Rita Hills Pinot — compact coiled potential unfurling into full expression at 90–93 points from California's most maritime coastal Pinot appellation.
Estate
★★★★☆
Sauvignon Blanc
Seven Twenty Eight Sauvignon Blanc
Santa Barbara County / Fiddlehead Estate
Fiddlehead's fiddlehead-potential Sauvignon Blanc — 728 as the altitude in feet of the Santa Ynez Valley vineyard, the elevation declared in the wine's name.
Estate
★★★★☆

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Fiddlehead Botanical Appointment
Appointment with Kathy Joseph's fern-botanical-potential-named Sta. Rita Hills boutique — Fiddlehead Pinot Noir at 90–93 points, coiled potential spiraling into Pacific Coast Pinot expression.
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