About Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards
Zaca Mesa is one of Santa Barbara County's oldest wineries, founded in 1972 on a high mesa in the Santa Ynez Valley. It was an early believer in Rhone varieties, and its estate Syrah remains its calling card, along with Grenache and Roussanne. Famously, it served as a training ground for a generation of Central Coast winemakers who went on to found their own celebrated labels.
The setting is laid-back and welcoming, complete with a life-size outdoor chessboard, and the wines reward those curious about the region's Rhone heritage. For history and honest estate Syrah, it is a rewarding Santa Ynez stop.
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Zaca Mesa WineryZaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards is one of Santa Barbara County's most historically founding-significance and Rhône-variety-pioneering wine estates.
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The Foxen CanyonThe Foxen Canyon Road Los Olivos mesa plateau property, established in 1972 as one of Santa Barbara County's earliest commercial wine enterprises, created a Santa Ynez Valley mesa plateau wine estate identity that has been consistently committed to Rhône variety production since the estate's earliest pioneering plantings of Syrah, Grenache, Roussanne, and Viognier in the 1970s and 1980s when these varieties were largely unknown to California wine consumers.
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Zaca Mesa's mostZaca Mesa's most historically consequential contribution to California wine, the training of winemakers including Jim Clendenen (Au Bon Climat), Adam Tolmach (Ojai Vineyard), and Bob Lindquist (Qupé), all of whom learned their craft at Zaca Mesa before establishing the most celebrated Santa Barbara County wine programs of the modern era, makes the Los Olivos mesa plateau estate the most personally winemaking-talent-alumni-producing and historically Santa-Barbara-County-founding-significance wine estate in the region.
"The most historically Santa Barbara County Rhône-variety-pioneering and mesa-plateau-specifically-elevated wine estate, "
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Featured Wines
Rhône Blend
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Santa Ynez Valley · Zaca Mesa Estate
Rhône Blend from Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards (Santa Ynez Valley, Zaca Mesa Estate).
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Syrah
Syrah
Santa Ynez Valley · Zaca Mesa Estate
Syrah from Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards (Santa Ynez Valley, Zaca Mesa Estate).
Estate
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Roussanne
Roussanne
Santa Ynez Valley · Zaca Mesa Estate
Roussanne from Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards (Santa Ynez Valley, Zaca Mesa Estate).
Estate
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Taste the wines at Zaca Mesa Winery & Vineyards in the Santa Ynez Valley. Daily 10am to 4pm, walk-ins welcome.
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