Live in the Bay Area?
Think of the Beazley House as your portal to the pleasures of Europe, right in your own “backyard”!
In LESS time than it would take you to drive to SFO or Oakland International airports, get through security and board a flight to Europe, you can be sipping a delicious, vintage wine at a Tuscan castle, a French chateaux or a cool wine cave in NAPA VALLEY.
And if you stay with us for at least two days, Sunday through Thursdays, WE will rebate $50 toward your tank of gas.
Napa Valley is more like Europe than America. No sprawling cities surrounded by suburbia. Here the towns and “hamlets” are surrounded by vineyards. Ours is one of the first “Ag(ricultural) preserves in the U.S. This means that the land is tax-valued not just at its “best and highest use” (read housing tracts), but as agricultural land. And the people of Napa County have voted over and over again to keep it agricultural.
The result spreads before you as you enter the Valley from the East (I80 via Cordelia) or West (Highway 12/121 from 101 north) in the Carneros.
It is in the lush vineyards of the Carneros (which straddles both Sonoma & Napa Counties) you will encounter your first glimpses of “Nuevo Europe”: Viansa, a Tuscan Hill villa overlooking a wetlands preserve and vineyards; Gloria Ferrer Champagne Caves and the French Chateau of Domaine Carneros.
Completed in 1989, the classic 18th century château-style building was architecturally inspired by the historic Château de la Marquetterie owned by principal founder, Champagne Taittinger. From its broad you view vineyards and rolling hills.
Napa Valley is home to over 340 wineries and how a genuine “Tuscan castle” complete with dungeons and (painted) dragons. Castello di Amorosa was built stone by hand cut stone over 17 years by Daryl Sattui. A third generation vintner, Sattui brought over Italian craftsmen who created a castle complete with three stories deep wine vaults, a drawbridge and towers. AND it meets California earthquake standards!!
Just down Highway 29 sits Beringer Vineyards and its Rhine House and caves. The mansion was built by prosperous German immigrant Frederick Beringer in the 1880’s. Said to remind him of his ancestral home on the Rhine, it is resplendent in stained glass and carved oak paneling. Behind are the wine caves carved out of the mountain by Chinese laborers. Here the air is always a cool mid 50’s and heavy with the scent of aging wine.
These are just a FEW of the MANY Napa Valley destinations to which we have a very special entre’. When you stay at the Beazley House, our friends are YOUR friends. And after 27 years, we have some good friends indeed!
