But the 20th anniversary of SIDEWAYS, a classic comedy of male misadventures on a pre-wedding trip to the bucolic California wine country, is as a good reason to go this fall as any. The movie ...

Alexander Payne's 2004 Oscar winner put the wine destination on the tourist map, and a new bottle label celebrates its anniversary ...

I'm driving bleary-eyed from Los Angeles to the vineyards north of Santa Barbara when I decide to roll the windows down and ...

panels and parties — all in beautiful wine country. “After working for twelve years at some of the top film festivals, I realized that the traditional festival model isn’t evolving with the ...

When Alexander Payne’s wine-drenched dramedy “Sideways” first came out, Santa Ynez Valley didn’t have the luster of Napa or the breadth of the Russian River Valley. It still doesn’t ...

Joe Cook remembers the moment he went viral. It was surprisingly unnerving. He’d been posting short films and sketches online with his comedy partners James Gladdon and Calum Gulvin since 2018.

There are lots of ways to tour the Willamette Valley wine country: by tour bus, by bike and even by horse. We spent this past summer looking for some of the most creative and unexpected ways to ...

Wine connoisseurs won't want to miss a visit to Montepulciano, where Tuscany's classic vino nobile is produced, or Montalcino, home of the country's famous brunello wine. For a heavenly glass of ...

It's bringing 350 new jobs to the area in the heart of California wine country. "It's humongous, it has some really cool things you would not think Costco would carry but it adds flavor to what we ...