The Best West Coast Wineries for Sipping Sauvignon Blanc

Whether you’re strolling through Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone or taking a self-led wine-tasting tour through Los Olivos in Santa Ynez, Margerum Wine Company is a must-visit. With tasting rooms both along the coast and in the valley, each of these spaces has a special charm and design-forward interior that invites guests to kick back and relax while exploring hand-crafted wines. The 2022 Margerum McGinley Vineyard Sauvignon Blanc is a $45 bottle that has a vibrant, clear color with a rich, concentrated and mineral-forward palate. Sourced from a rare selection of old vines, this is the ideal bottle to bring to your next outdoor gathering or beachside picnic.  Continue »

Museum of Natural History Hosts Splendid Wine + Food Festival

On June 29, more than 1,300 people enjoyed the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s annual Santa Barbara Wine + Food Festival, where 91 winery, other beverage, and food purveyors offered tastings. As always, winemakers, chefs, and proprietors were on hand to personally serve their fine creations and chat with guests in the idyllic setting of the museum’s oak woodland. The $166,000 net proceeds will support the museum’s education programs and exhibits.  Continue »

The Best Rosés and White Wines to Order Online This Summer

This renowned sybarite’s latest venture is a second tasting room in Los Olivos where you can enjoy his appropriately branded Sybarite sauvignon blanc alongside oysters and/or a bento box with such delicacies as Buri sashimi yellowtail with yuzu kosho and Dungeness crab baked with vanilla bean sauce in what is one of the most exceptional wine pairing offerings in Santa Ynez Valley.  Continue »

Three days in Santa Barbara - the ultimate holiday stopover

Why waste your time in an airport stopover hotel when you can have a holiday-inside-a-holiday, just a short hop from LA?  Continue »

Margerum Wines: The Wine Dude

Hey Winos....I was in the Funk Zone and I met up with Owner & "Wine Director" Doug Margerum of Margerum Wines....Beautiful Tasting Room 1 Block from the Beach in amazing Santa Barbara....They are Located at 19 E Mason St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 - Show is about 25 Mins long so Grab a Glass of Wine and Kick Back - And Join Me, The Wine Dude as we talk with Doug of the Margerum Wine Company....  Continue »

A Trip to Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara California not only has a stunning coastal location, beautiful Mediterranean style architecture, amazing restaurants and shopping – it also has its share of wineries! More than 280 wineries are located among the seven AVAs in Santa Barbara County... https://johnswinecellar.com/2024/01/16/santa-barbara-trip/  Continue »

Margerum M5 Red Earns Prestigious Recognition as #17 in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List

Margerum Wine Company is proud to announce that our Margerum M5 Red has secured the remarkable position of #17 in Wine Spectator’s highly acclaimed Top 100 List for the 2023 edition.  Continue »

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 »