Carruth Cellars Urban Winery is turning 20, and its Solana Beach tasting room is shutting its doors to regular business for a two-day anniversary blowout next weekend. The party runs Saturday, Nov. 14, and Sunday, Nov. 15, from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 118 S. Cedros Ave., Suite C, with tickets priced at $80 for the public and $64 for wine club members.
The celebration traces back to 2006, when founder Adam Carruth turned his backyard winemaking hobby into a professional operation, according to Carruth Cellars. Two decades later, the brand has grown into four tasting rooms across San Diego County, located in Oceanside, Carlsbad, Solana Beach and Liberty Station, as the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Carruth, the winery's founder and owner, said the anniversary is meant to celebrate friendships, celebrations and community as well as wine, per the same report.
What's Included in the Ticket Price
Admission covers 12 exclusive wine tastings, including unreleased barrel wines and newly bottled releases, plus an unlimited gourmet buffet prepared by chef Luke Morganstern, the head chef of Carruth's Carlsbad tasting room, the paper notes. Ticket holders also get live music from local artists, a limited-edition commemorative wine glass, entry into a raffle featuring wine and experiences, and access to anniversary merchandise, according to the same account. The event will also offer special anniversary pricing on reserve wines and cases that attendees can take home the same day.
The party is strictly a 21-and-over affair, and organizers are asking guests to leave children, dogs and outside food at home, per the Union-Tribune's report. Because the Solana Beach location is closing to its usual business for the occasion, this isn't a drop-in tasting room visit — it's a ticketed, full-building takeover for the weekend.
A Winery That Keeps Marking Milestones
This isn't the first time Carruth Cellars has thrown itself a party. The winery marked its 10-year anniversary in Solana Beach back in 2020, according to an earlier Union-Tribune account, and has kept the tradition of ticketed tasting events going in the years since. Its 15th Annual Barrel Tasting Party, held in Solana Beach over two days in March 2025, charged $76 per person for 12 barrel-wine samples alongside pizza and live music, the paper reported at the time. A few months later, the winery's second annual Summer Solstice Barrel Tasting Party at the Liberty Station Tasting Room and Wine Garden offered a similar $76 ticket with 12 barrel tastings, a souvenir glass, pizza and live music.
Production numbers from that earlier growth period aren't entirely settled in the record. One 2020 Union-Tribune article reported Carruth Cellars made 25,000 barrels of wine in 2019, while a separate account from WestCoaster San Diego, archived by CSUSM, described that same year's output as 25,000 cases bottled — a discrepancy that hasn't been publicly resolved. Either way, the growth from a backyard hobby to a four-location operation is the throughline the winery is leaning into for its 20th year.
