Thinking about a Santa Cruz wine tasting trip? Let this be your sign. Tucked between Silicon Valley and the breezy beaches of Santa Cruz and Capitola, the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA (American ...

In the 1880s and 1890s, the Santa Cruz Mountains became celebrated for award-winning wines, with many of the wineries run as resort hotels. These included Villa de Fontenay on Vine Hill, Hotel de ...

The Santa Cruz Mountains south of Loma Chiquita has Uvas Creek leading east to Little Uvas Creek emptying into Uvas Reservoir near Morgan Hill. It was named for the native grapes growing wild in the ...

The way from my mom’s house in Aptos up to Rhys Vineyard follows Highway 1 through Santa Cruz and then up Highway 17, that notoriously dangerous mountain road where I learned to drive stick-shift ...