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THE TASTING ROOM
Hartley and Ostini strive to create flavorful handcrafted wines that possess poise and balance, putting a slice of Santa Barbara in each glass, and a piece of their soul in every bottle of Hitching Post.
The Traditional Tasting at Hitching Post Wines priced at $25 per guest offers a flight of five Hitching Post Wines.
A Reserve Tasting, priced at $30 per guest, includes five wines featuring rare single-vineyard bottling and special older vintages of Hitching Post.
We also offer a white wine flight of 4 Hitching Post wines, priced at $20 per guest.
For those
seeking the ultimate experience, Hitching Post Wines offers customized
Private Winemaker Tastings with Gray Hartley or Frank Ostini for
$60 per guest and by appointment only.
Lunch+
Hitching Post
Wines would
not be complete without the added flavor of Hitching Post 2’s
Santa
Maria Style BBQ food pairings to enjoy while tasting.
Classic crowd-pleasing favorites served from the restaurant include HP
Burgers; Triple-Fried French Fries; Santa Maria BBQ Artichokes; and
Grilled Corn Quesadillas.
The Site
Hitching Post
Wines is set in a mid-century farmhouse off the
246 Highway with trailing walkways and outdoor seating areas banking a
view of the Santa Ynez Mountain landscape. The tasting room building
covers 2,000 square feet and sits on nearly twelve acres of land,
landscaped by red oak trees, including a 200-year-old tree greeting
passers-by in the front of the property. Rustic corral fencing frames
the building and main property and encloses a red bark-covered
landscape with decomposed granite and native plants scattered with
picnic tables and ample seating areas covered by shade screens.
The charming cottage has a gray exterior trimmed in white accents and
window shutters. Guests first view a cast iron Hitching Post brand
inlaid into the polished concrete floor when entering the front door.
To the west, the main tasting room boasts original oak floors and a
fireplace dating from before 1950. The color palette includes warm
stone grays with details of white, copper and bronze. To the east,
there is a private tasting room ensconced in gray wainscoting accented
by a distressed corrugated tin ceiling. Separating the two wings is a
secondary tasting room showcasing historical
photos of Frank Ostini and
Gray Hartley with a timeline of Hitching Post wines. The
tasting bars
are covered in burnished copper and composed of repurposed barn-wood
siding, copper piping footrests and illuminated by oil-rubbed bronzed
and copper farmhouse hanging fixtures.
Throughout the property
are walkways and casual picnic areas that
invite guests to linger over a bottle of wine while taking in the
dramatic Santa Ynez Mountains and river landscape. Dogs
with attending
families are welcome.
See the interesting history of the building ...