Crosshatch Winery

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Enjoy a glass of wine or wine tasting in the heart of California wine country.  We invite you to stop by our tasting room in the historic and quaint town of Santa Ynez to soak in the majestic views from the patio. We look forward to sharing our wines with you.

Wines by the Glass, Wine Tasting, and Bottles To Go

Our Philosophy

All of the wines produced by CrossHatch Winery are co-fermented blends sourced from Santa Barbara County vineyards. 

CrossHatch is a project created in 2011 by winemaker Ryan Carr. After making only single varietal wines for eleven years, winemaker Ryan wanted to try something different. He and his wife Jessica came up with the idea for CrossHatch, inspired by the classic form of art. Cross hatching is an artistic technique that uses closely spaced intersecting lines to create shading, definition, and form in a drawing.

Carr took this technique and adapted it into the winemaking process by harvesting multiple varietals on the same day then crushing and fermenting them together. The idea of co-fermented wine is nothing new. Some of the best and oldest wines in the world are made this way, but with the microclimates of Santa Barbara it really adds another layer to the process. Co-fermentation brings out and creates flavors in the wine that would not have existed otherwise. This makes the CrossHatch wine truly one of a kind.

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