Come soak in the beauty of Lake Casitas at the Rotary Club of Ojai-West's annual Ojai Wine Festival! From its humble beginning in 1987, the Ojai Wine Festival has grown into a leading regional event attracting approximately 5,000 people from throughout the Central Coast and Southern California. In the last few years the number of attending wineries has doubled to over sixty. The event offers a fantastic variety of twenty specialty beers. Each year we have a wonderful selection of local restaurants selling delicious culinary delights. To add fun and excitement to the event we have arts and crafts vendors, a steady stream of musical entertainment, a dance floor, and free boat rides on the Rotary boat. Our silent wine auction has become a popular attraction featuring fine wines, private tasting parties, VIP winery tours and other wine related items.

General admission includes unlimited tastes of wine and beer and an elegant crystal souvenir wine glass.  VIP ticket holders have all the privileges of general admission and enjoy early event entry plus exclusive use of the VIP Lounge.  The VIP Lounge offers premium shaded seating along the stunning lakefront. VIP ticket holders can indulge in an all-inclusive supreme selection of fine wines and specialty beers by the glass along with scrumptious hors d’oeuvres.  VIP Non-Drink tickets are available as well.
Sunset Magazine named Ojai one of the top five food and wine havens in the west for 2009 and many believe the festival has played a role by introducing people from throughout Southern California and the Central Coast to the bounty of Ojai. Since 1987 the Ojai Wine Festival has raised over $865,000.00. All the funds raised from the Ojai Wine Festival go to aid many important Rotary projects; in particular our hard hit public schools, international clean drinking water projects as well as eradicating polio worldwide. For a complete list of the Rotary Club of Ojai-West's projects please see