At age 77, Dario Sattui is still a kid a heart, especially when he talks about his life’s great passion: Medieval architecture. “I love medieval architecture, I’m nuts, I’ve got a disease, I know it ...

Haunted wine castle: Calistoga’s Castello di Amorosa is only 7 years old, but some of the materials used to construct the 13th-century-inspired winery date back centuries earlier, and many of the ...

The Napa Valley wine tour to beat all wine tours is being offered by Dario Sattui. For $20,000, a couple will be treated like a king and queen in a Napa Valley winery patterned after a 13th-century ...

As the only winery in the world with an actual torture chamber, guests better behave at Castello di Amorosa, a medieval-style castle nestled in a 30-acre vineyard in Calistoga, created over 12 ...

Calistoga, Calif. — A castle is rising south of this small resort town that promises to be Napa Valley’s most lavish tourist draw. Or a vintner’s fortune-busting folly. In April, Daryl Sattui, whose ...

Napa Valley’s spectacular Castello di Amorosa is a bit like Alcatraz. Oh, not in appearance, of course! But this re-created medieval castle and the infamous federal prison are icons. They’re places ...

The ravages of age have not diminished the stout menace of the guard towers, the narrow focus of arrow slits in the ramparts, the safety of the vaulted ceilings or the threatening presence of an iron ...

Castello di Amorosa, the winery housed in a replica 13th Century Tuscan castle near Calistoga, suffered a small fire Wednesday in or near its torture chamber. “The fire was caused by an unattended ...

For most tourists, a planned trip to California conjures up images of Hollywood boulevard, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Silicon Valley and the sprawling, dreamy cities of LA and SFO. For the ...