Visit Us
We welcome you to our tasting room at the corner of Zaca Station and Foxen Canyon roads in the Santa Ynez Valley, just a few miles from the town of Los Olivos.
Our tasting room offers a bright and vibrant environment for sampling and purchasing wine, as well as gift and food items from local purveyors. A recent expansion of the tasting room extends into the winery cellar, where you can enjoy the ambiance of French oak barrels, a Vicard 40-hectaliter oak upright tank and mural-covered walls. We also offer an extensive shaded picnic area surrounded by vineyards and colorful landscaping.
(805) 686-8999
5249 Foxen Canyon Road, Los Olivos, CA (directions below)
Hours and Details
The Curtis Winery tasting room is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The tasting fee is $10 per person, which includes a keepsake winery crystal logo glass.
Directions
Curtis Winery is located at the southern end of the Foxen Canyon Wine Trail just a few miles east of Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County. From either direction on Highway 101, take the Zaca Station Road/Highway 154 exit. If coming from the north, turn left and over the highway. If coming from the south, turn right. As the road dips and curves southward, take an immediate left onto Zaca Station Road and continue for 2.5 miles. Curtis Winery is located on your left, one-quarter mile past Firestone Vineyard.
Winery Facility History
The Curtis Winery facility once housed the vast personal art collection of famed television producer Douglas Cramer. The building was constructed in the early 1980s as an agricultural storage facility, and was soon converted by Cramer into a gallery featuring, in the words of one observer, “some of the finest artists in modern history.” Cramer, who produced numerous television hits including Dynasty, Star Trek, The Odd Couple and The Love Boat, is world-renowned for his provocative tastes in modern art and his more than 600 pieces by Matisse, Picasso, Warhol and dozens of other artists. “I used to drive by the gallery on my way to work and think that it was an ideal location for a winery,” says Winemaker Chuck Carlson. “The fact that the building was set up in multi-level floors enhanced the idea that it would make a great winery facility.” Indeed, the Firestone family later acquired the Cramer property and building, which neighbored their own winery estate, and established Curtis Winery in 1995. The name honors the lineage of Polly Curtis, mother of Brooks Firestone.
