California Dreaming: Cruising The Pacific Coast Highway, From San Francisco To Los Angeles - Travel+Leisure

California is best explored by road along the Pacific Coast Highway. On a summer holiday, the author discovers the state’s surreal landscapes.  Continue »

Please the Palate: Bento Box Tasting in Los Olivos

Many wineries offer food and wine pairing experiences at their tasting rooms. A successful food and wine pairing can be symbiotic. Not only can flavors be enhanced in the food and/or the wines, but food can really enhance the wine, showing it in its best light. I experienced that with a unique experience at Margerum Wine Company and that is why the Bento Box Tasting and Wine Pairing at Margerum Wine Company in Los Olivos is the Please The Palate pick of the week.  Continue »

Noozhawk: Margerum’s Food Gaining Popularity Among Wine Fans

Cleverly camouflaged as a simple wine room, Margerum Wine Company at the Hotel Californian in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone is gaining quite a following for its food as well. Combine that with some of the best wine in Santa Barbara County, and it’s a brilliant pairing. “A lot of people don’t even know we serve food here,” said Doug Margerum, owner and wine maker. “Friends from France were recently here, and they told me we have the best food in Santa Barbara.”  Continue »

Santa Maria Sun: Margerum teams up with BB Sushi

There’s a black and white portrait in the Margerum Wine Company’s new tasting room in Los Olivos that leads some guests to assume its subject is no longer with us. “I’m still alive,” Santa Barbara County-based vintner Doug Margerum said with a laugh, before shifting his gaze to another framed piece in the venue, among a row of landscape paintings.  Continue »

Food and Home Magazine Profiles Doug Margerum

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Wine Spectator features Doug and Marni's home

Winemaker Doug Margerum and his wife, interior designer Marni Blau, created a sunlit kitchen with Calacatta marble and hand-forged black iron drawer pulls that echo their home’s Spanish architecture.  Continue »

Doug and Mitchell on the cover of Food & Home

Doug Margerum and Mitchell Sjervin grace the cover of Food & Home magazine and are interviewed by Leslie Westbrook inside.  Continue »

'Beg Your Barden' in the Dec/Jan SOMM Journal

Merideth May covers the Barden story in the SOMM Journal.  Continue »

Margerum Wine Company Signs Long-Term Lease on Honea Vineyards

Margerum Wine Company has signed a long-term lease with Honea Vineyards for Margerum’s Rhône varietals wine production...  Continue »

Nice scores from Wine Enthusiast!

Wine Enthusiast recently rated and reviewed Margerum wines, which received...  Continue »

Robb Report on ÜBER

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Wine Enthusiast Scores are impressive!

Once again Wine Enthusiast awards Margerum wines with...  Continue »

Wine Enthusiast Scores for Margerum and Happy Canyon Vineyards

Wine Enthusiast can't get enough Margerum!  Continue »

Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar

Margerum Wine Company By Josh Raynolds I tasted through this year's set of releases with Doug Margerum's...  Continue »

Wine Spectator

Wine Spectator reviews our Black Oak Vineyard Syrah. Summer 2010 release.  Continue »

Toast the Fourth with an American Rosé

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Rhone Report Raves

2010 Margerum Grenache Blanc Camp Four Vineyard White 89 2008 Margerum Grenache Santa Barbara County Red 91 2009 Margerum Grenache...  Continue »

Wine Spectator Values Wish List

With a rating of 87, our...  Continue »

Wine Spectator 01.09

Wine Spectator touts our 2006 M5 and scores it a 92!  Continue »

Wine Spectator 03.2007

Wine Spectator reviews the 2005 Margerum Syrah and scores it a 93!  Continue »