A Tuscan castle in Napa Valley

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A Tuscan castle in Napa Valley

Wine maker creates 107-room castle in Napa Valley, the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, Calif.

Daryl Sattu walks with his dog through one of the 107 rooms at the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, Calif.

Sattui enjoys a glass of wine at the castle, a 13th-century-style Tuscan castle that sits on Diamond Mountain in California.

A metal cast of a dragon hangs from a wall at the Castello di Amorosa.

The main entry way at the castle. Sattui set out to build a modest, 8,500-square-foot winery. Millions of dollars and 120,000 square feet later, he's king of a wine country castle complete with drawbridge and dungeons.

Sattui has been making wine in the Napa Valley since the '70s when he started the V. Sattui Winery in St. Helena. The winery is named after his great-grandfather Vittorio, an Italian winemaker who made wine under the name V. Sattui in San Francisco until Prohibition shut him down. A room in the castle is dedicated to Vittorio. It features dusty old bottles, most empty but a few still labeled and corked, that come from his original winery.

A peek inside the torture chamber/dungeon at the castle. There are secret passageways, a church, a kitchen, an apartment for the nobles, stables, and an outdoor oven for baking bread.

Castello di Amorosa features 107 rooms on eight levels, four above ground and four below.

A worker cleans a wall inside the Great Hall, which is 72 feet long and 22 feet high and decorated with huge frescoes ⿿ replicas of medieval Italian paintings that took two Italian artists about a year and a half to complete.

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Daryl Sattu walks with his dog through one of the 107 rooms at the Castello di Amorosa in Calistoga, Calif.

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