NAPA VALLEY IN A 13TH CENTURY CASTLE!!!!

We visited a 13th century Italian castle today in Napa Valley.  The man who made the castle is now a billionaire due to his two wineries in Napa. He loves Mid-evil architecture and building this castle was his life long dream, he also is very tight with his Italian heritage (he still has a home in Italy) that were excellent wine makers so he combined both his passions in one.  What is neat about this castle is the measures this man went to make everything authentic...he had all the ancient bricks shipped from Italy, they only used tools that would have been used back then, no concreted for the grout....mixture they would have used, transplanted 100 year old olive tress, the castles doors were handmade by Italians(Historians said they were about 300 years old....only 13 year old)...I could go on and on...it was amazing!!!!  This Castle had a torture chamber, which real tools that were used (Marcus you would have loved this place:)  It had a room called the "whispering room", made so that you could ease drop on everyones conversation in the room.  I was skeptical, but then Seth and I tried it and it was like his whisper was amplified 10 times in my ear....very weird!!!  They had sheep and chicken just wondering around everywhere, I got to pet the sheep :)  Oh and how they make their wine...I won't even try to explain it...basically they hand pick every grape...grow their own grapes, and do everything 10 times better...or so it seems.  They only sell their wine from the castle, you won't find it anywhere else in the world!   We had a wine tasting in the wine cellar under the castle, of course we liked the dessert wines and the sparkling grape juice :)  But we were both able to say that we could tell a huge difference in this wine compared to other whites or red...we could actually swirl and smell fruity or floral scents,  and I could see how some people could like their Merlot....haha!  We after that we walked down the main strip and found a chocolate shop and Life is Good store.  The chocolate was wonderful...just melted in your mouth, but 1.85 per piece...we only got two :)  On our way home we ate at our Americanized Italian restaurant....Olive Garden!!!