Castello di Amorosa
December 15, 2007
Castle entrance
We ended up spending the entire day at Sattui between the tour, tasting, and then our beautiful lunch! We had 4:30 reservations for the tour at the castle and had to hurry to make it on time. The castle was breathtaking and as beautiful as I remember (I used to sneak up and 'trespass' when it was being built). It is definitely not cheap to do the tour and the tastings but well worth the visit at least once! You do have to make reservations and it takes about 2 hours to complete but a beautiful tour. They said Darryl spent everything he had (minus his retirement) to build that castle and make it as authentic as the castles he visited in Europe.
We had such a perfect Saturday! I cannot wait until the next time we drive up there!
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Castle entrance
Getting ready to go into the cas…
View of Sterling Vineyards
View from the castle
Camera games!
Scott and I on the rooftop
View down on to private dining area
View from castle
Il Brigante room
Another view from Napa
castle grounds
castle grounds
Bricks brought in from Tuscany
custom steeples designed for the…
Main dining room - part of the l…
ceiling in main dining room
fireplace in main dining room
view of castle
door knocker on castle entrance
view from bottling area back acr…
one of the barrel rooms
another barrel room
THE wine......oh how I wish I co…
Down in one of the barrel storin…
A better view of the barrels behind
various small rooms with Sattui …
bottles lined up
One of the rooms with stored bot…
Another room for wine storage
table in torture chamber
Iron Maiden in torture room...ap…
Torture room
Chair in torture room
Castle fresco
View from center plaza of castle
Scott showing how tall the doors…
Handcrafted doors
view from one of the upper rooms
one of the small staircases
Another cool staircase leading t…
red wine tanks
red wine tanks
Mural in the knights room
I feel so tiny here.....
Close up of one of the murals in…
Biglietto ticket for the tour an…
