Central Coast Wine Festivals
Chronological Order
Blendfest on the Coast
Experience a taste of Paso Robles Wine Country on the beautiful California coast. Paso Robles BlendFest on the Coast is the only Wine Festival Dedicated to Blends and offers a selection of exciting events. Paso Robles’ winemakers love to blend wine, mixing varieties to craft something unique and delicious. BlendFest celebrates rule-breaking, traditional, and unconventional wine blends throughout the weekend.
Garagiste Festival Southern Exposure
The Garagiste Wine Festival is the first and only wine festival dedicated to the undiscovered and under-recognized American artisan ‘garagiste’ producers who are making some of the best, most exciting, handcrafted small-lot production wines in the world, committed to discovering the best and most innovative limited-production winemakers and promoting and showcasing them to a broad audience of discerning wine consumers.
World of Pinot Noir
The annual World of Pinot Noir (WOPN) event gathers the planet’s foremost Pinot Noir wineries and winemakers, renowned chefs, sommeliers and leading wine scholars in a weekend-long seaside celebration of this delicious and storied wine.
Atascadero Lakeside Wine Fest
The Atascadero WineFest experience will showcase premier wines from the Central Coast and beyond. Now celebrating it’s 26th year, this WineFest boasts over 100 wines from more than 50 wineries, breweries, food purveyors, and art exhibitors for attendees to enjoy while relaxing at the sun kissed, lakeside location. A “roar-and-pour” will put folks up close and personal with zoo animals as they taste wines within the Charles Paddock Zoo.
California Wine Festival
Thousands of wine lovers pour into Santa Barbara’s sun-splashed beachside location for a day of sun, sea, wine, food, and music. Wine oenophiles will find hundreds of fine wines, regional craft brews and a dizzying variety of foods to sample.
Wine and Fire
Make plans now for the hottest wine event on the Central Coast. Visit Sta. Rita Hills wineries and tasting rooms for four days of festivities. The Sta. Rita Hills is a prestigious wine growing region for Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and other cool climate wine grape varieties.
Paso Robles Harvest Fest
The entire month of October is Harvest Wine Month. Wineries host individual events throughout the month. Look for specialty tours, winemaker dinners, grape stomps, music events, and more. October traditionally has exceptional weather, when days are warm and nights are cool, a staple for Paso Robles Wine Country and a perfect time to take in the incredible colors, sights, and aromas of harvest.
Santa Barbara Vintners Festival
The Annual Santa Barbara Vintners Festival is the largest tasting of Santa Barbara County and your chance to try more of that Santa Barbara County wine you love, get to know the people who make it and where they make it from.
Harvest on the Coast
Gather to meet and visit with your favorite winemakers and producers. Taste their cool climate wines that are defined by the elements of the Pacific, influenced by soil, shaped by wind, cooled by fog, and kissed by sun at this late fall event. Discover where the coast meets the vines.
Garagiste Festival Paso Robles
The Garagiste Wine Festival is the first and only wine festival dedicated to the undiscovered and under-recognized American artisan ‘garagiste’ producers who are making some of the best, most exciting, handcrafted small-lot production wines in the world, committed to discovering the best and most innovative limited-production winemakers and promoting and showcasing them to a broad audience of discerning wine consumers.