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What Makes Sta Rita Hills Wine So Distinct from the Rest of Santa Barbara Wine Country?

Santa Barbara wine country covers a lot of ground. You’ve got Happy Canyon making Bordeaux-style reds in the east. Ballard Canyon is doing bold Syrahs. Los Olivos is turning out textured Rhônes. They’re all part of the same county and yet taste completely different from one another. But no sub-region within Santa Barbara pulls quite…