I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Wines from the Santa Barbara area have been interesting to follow over the last few decades.

In the 1800s, Mission Grapes flourished here, but they all but disappeared after prohibition.

Local industry moved in other directions until a resurgence of

the great-surgence in the 1970s.

Press coverage of Sanford and Benedict's Pinot Noir from the mid-70s

attracted several wine pioneers to the region.

The cornerstones of the last few decades have been Rhone and

burgundy varieties, Pino, Chardonnay, Grenache, and Surah, and in the 90s

big, bold, ripe versions drew some early attention to the region.

But now the pendulum swings in the other direction, quite literally, towards the cooler windy sites near the ocean and more tense and

delicate wines from Pino and Rhone grapes are currently in the spotlight.

In part due to local rules that make building an estate winery difficult and expensive,

and also in part due to Manfred Krankel's pioneering headway and success with the Cinequinan Urban Winery, the Santa Barbara wine scene has a unique

modus operandi. Many producers there positioned their wineries in warehouse districts.

These are city-like and Virons and they're close to the

101. Short drives away, they maintain isolated vineyard sites in separate

locations across the region. Some have their own sites, some by fruit from contracted growers,

and some use a combination of both. This norm for Santa Barbara winemaking is far

from the bucolic images conjured when we usually think of sprawling

California wineries with a big estate in the middle of the vineyards and yet

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