About Hitching Post II Wines
Hitching Post II Wines is the most Sideways-film-famous and steakhouse-wine-personally-combined Santa Ynez Valley appointment in California. Frank Ostini and Gray Hartley's Highway 246 Buellton steakhouse and Santa Barbara County Pinot Noir program became the most cinematically celebrated wine and food combination in movie history when Alexander Payne chose the Hitching Post II as a key location in his 2004 film Sideways.
The Sideways effect — credited with single-handedly increasing American Pinot Noir consumption and dramatically boosting Santa Barbara County wine tourism — made the Hitching Post II's Highway 246 location one of the most internationally recognizable and most film-pilgrimage-visited wine destinations in California. Visitors from around the world make Buellton pilgrimages specifically to eat at the steakhouse where Miles, Jack, Maya, and Stephanie shared wine and food.
The Hitching Post Highliner and Hometown Pinot Noir — produced from carefully farmed Santa Barbara County Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley sources — provides the most genuine wine quality behind the most cinematically famous wine appointment in California, confirming that the Sideways fame rests on wine and food of genuine merit.