Ordinarily, when sinking one’s teeth into a dark-chocolate-iced devil’s-food-cake doughnut or a lemon-glazed blueberry-cake doughnut, one might expect to reach for a cup of coffee to wash it down. But during a recent tasting at Kitá Wines in Lompoc, these sumptuous morsels from God’s Country Provisions instead found their ideal marriage with a berrylicious grenache rosé for the cocoa creation and a citrusy sauvignon blanc for the blueberry cake one.
Of course, customers can pair these creations with coffee at the original God’s Country Provisions bakery in Buellton as well as its brand-new location in Los Olivos, where they make that lemon glaze with help from the nearby Los Olivos Lemons stand. But whether it’s collaborating with vintners or lemonade makers, this gourmet doughnut enterprise is all about fitting into the community.
Founded by Sarah and Loren Ollenburger and Tracy and Craig Minus, God’s Country Provisions officially launched this past January, taking over the former home of Donut Time, which had served Buellton for nearly a decade prior. The couples, who each have three children, moved to the Santa Ynez Valley relatively recently — the Minuses from Santa Barbara and the Ollenburgers from Orange County. They were all drawn to this fertile Central Coast region as a great place to raise their families. Like so many others, they quickly took to calling it “God’s Country.”
