St. Avalo Quarterly

Winter 2025

A belated cheers to 2025 from your friends at St. Avalo Wines!  As we kick off a new year, we're excited to add a splash of color to your Winter/Spring with a club pickup party on February 15th. Join us as we get a new season kicked off with Tony Ybarra, local Santa Barbara guitarist.

He is one of the most sought-after Spanish/Latin guitarists on the west coast. He is an active composer and has 6 albums to his name. His music has been featured in movies and television shows including Dexter, Madam Secretary & the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He is currently a featured guitarist at Ty Warner’s San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito, CA.

Your Spring 2025 club shipments will be awaiting you in the tasting room, featuring a newly released 2022 Sauvignon Blanc, our limited 2023 Rosé & a fan-favorite that is in short supply—the 2022 Gamay Noir.  This shipment reflects the lighter taste profiles for consumption as the weather begins to warm up.

Update to the website: we've also built functionality into our website that will help us action on our "Reserve Cellar."  This will allow club members access to wines we've stored away for longer aging or are in short supply & hot demand.  What this means for you (the club member) is to be sure you are logged in to our website when ordering to have access to the limited supply & of course your member pricing...just another reason to join the club!

Attention runners: The Santa Barbara Wine Country Half Marathon is around the corner on May 10th.  Have you been conditioning?  The first 2 runners to sign up will receive complimentary race entries & the following 4 will receive 50% off.  Please reach out to info@stavalo.com to provide your shirt size & style preference.

We hope to see you in the tasting room on February 15th, but for those we don't get to see in person—your shipments will be going out on Tuesday the 17th.  To order the Winter 2025 shipment, check out the 3-bottle or 6-bottle options.  As always, orders of 6 bottles or more enjoy complimentary shipping.

Pardon the dust...

It's with great pleasure we're announcing the opening of our public tasting room at the heart of Los Olivos, CA in the Santa Ynez Valley!

While the Central Coast is often overlooked as a destination, we've set our roots deep into the community over the past 15+ years and count ourselves lucky to call the Santa Ynez Valley home.

We're putting the finishing touches on what we aim to be a gathering spot for locals, a welcoming introduction to our brand for wine aficionados & a staple for all to experience while in our small town.

A look back on the prior year:

Estate reds are released! We can't be more excited to release the first vintages of our 2021 + 2022 estate harvests. Given our unique location in Central California, we experience cold colds & warm warms. A morning fog usually embraces the valley while experience summer highs that closely resemble terroirs of Italian regions—hence Italian grape varietals taking well to our vineyard.

Now that we finally have a well-rounded offering of wines, we have something for every palette & look forward to introducing you to wines from the old world; cultivated from our own estate here in the Santa Ynez Valley.

Throughout 2023 we sponsored a half-dozen events & poured our wines for many folks with great feedback. Additionally, we submitted our 3 white wines into 2 competitions, winning medals for both our 2021 Vermentino & 2021 Pinot Grigio.

With such a warm reception to market, we decided the timing was right to open doors to the public—and what spot better than downtown Los Olivos?

So what is next?

We plan a soft launch of the tasting room later this month as we put on some finishing touches, and welcome you all to come by! As we're still aging some of our more mature wines, we have plenty more in store for you but we're quite pleased with the feedback we've received thus far.

For those of you living further than a hop, skip & a jump away, please join us in celebration by having our wines shipped to your doorstep. For those of you who are not yet Wine Club members, be sure you use our new year's promo code: "ECCO" (active through Valentine's Day 😉) & remember—shipping is on the house with orders of 6 or more bottles.

Stay tuned for our grand opening & all the fun we have in store for 2024...