Castello Di Amorosa

is my new love(:

seriously. Yesterday, my family drove up to American Canyon near Napa, which was about a 1.5-2 hour drive to visit a family friend. When we arrived, she invited us to go on a tour with her and her granddaughter to Castello Di Amorosa, a famous winery in Calistoga. Castello di Amorosa was opened for business 2 years ago to produce wine, which is only sold ON sight and nowhere else. Unfortunately, I'm underage so I couldn't taste their wine but I was fortunate enough to meet the man, Daryl Sattui, who had put together the design of the castle after many years of travel throughout Europe. The castle itself took around 13 years to build but it was exquisitely built to look hundreds of years old instead. The views and the specific details inside the castle were spectacular and so admirable. He even added an authentic torture chamber to the medieval replica castle complete with creepy torture devices [[which were never used, of course]]. I probably would have never known about this place but now that I have, I simply love it. I learned so much about the history of it in such a short tour but I'm so glad I did. I'm pretty sure I'm going to come back to that area and go to the wineries around it when I'm old enough because I never knew how interesting they were.