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<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe entrance to Jaffurs Wine Cellars.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Jaffurs Wine Cellars makes Rh\u00f4ne-style wines in a facility that was purpose-built for winemaking by Craig Jaffurs in 2001.\u00a0 It has a garage door opening, with an iron table just inside where they serve tastings.\u00a0 The trend towards seated tastings by appointment only has not yet reached Jaffurs.\u00a0 Visitors enter, wait for some employee to notice them and then are served a selection of Jaffurs\u2019 rather extensive list of wines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just beyond the, er, tasting room, visitors will see the crush pad and beyond that fork lifts tending to the barrels of wine waiting to age and be bottled. Unsurprisingly, Jaffurs does not get many visitors and so the vibe when people do come is real pleasure to show off their wines. And we did find Jaffurs\u2019 wines quite enjoyable. Jaffurs sources all of their grapes from vineyards from the Sants Rita Hills to as far north as Santa Maria County. Many of them have significant reputations, most notably the Bien Nacido in Santa Maria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jaffurs doesn\u2019t make very much wine \u2013 only 5,000 cases annually \u2013 and so is not widely distributed. Although the specialty of the house is Rh\u00f4ne grapes, which we liked, we found that we most enjoyed their Pinot Noir. They don\u2019t make a big deal of it, so you have to ask to try some<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for Carr Winery, we are being a bit unfair when we say that it \u00a0is a factory, although wine is made and aged there.\u00a0 Their facility was originally a Quonset Hut in the same industrial area as Jaffurs, and was used to repair World War II aircraft.\u00a0 There is a terrace outside but it is often used by a mah-jongg club, so we found it better to taste inside.\u00a0 This is nicely furnished to look something like a trendy cocktail lounge.\u00a0 There are artworks scattered about as well.\u00a0 Visitors can easily forget that they are in a working winery in a factory district.<\/p>\n\n\n The Carr Winery tasting room.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost all of Carr\u2019s wines are 100% single varietals. There\u2019s a little secret there: Ryan Carr, the owner and winemaker, also has a vineyard management business. With the insight gained from that enterprise, he buys grapes \u2013 ostensibly the best ones \u2013 from his customers. Accordingly, Carr makes wine from a wide variety of grapes, including the usual (Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah) and some that are less likely to be found elsewhere (Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc). Winemaker Carr has a definite style; there is a clear consistency in all his wines, regardless of the grapes used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if anyone would ever get tired of beautiful scenery and surroundings, we recommend a trip to the East Side of Santa Barbara, where Jaffurs and Carr will show you wines with an industrial ambiance but countryside quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Generally, when we think of a winery, the image that comes to mind is a tasting room that is elegantly furnished with views of endless vistas of grapevines. Or urban tasing rooms that are clubby and well-decorated. There are two wineries in Santa Barbara that break that mold: Jaffurs and Carr. These two are unmistakably … Continue reading Factory Wine Tasting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2941\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n