The bargains just keep piling up in wine country real estate.
As you know, the Mondavi mansion recently sold for a sum that was undisclosed but was less than the asking price of $13.9, which itself was almost half off the original sticker price of $25 million.
And now, Villa Montana, home of NFL great Joe Montana has been reduced from $49 million to $35 million. (That initial asking price seems to indicate a bit of a trend by the former San Francisco 49er quarterback. A wine he makes with the Sbragia family sells for $149 .)
Details of the property are included in this story from the Napa Valley Register about a number of high-end properties that are on the market right now.
So, what do you get for $35 mill?
How about a stable with 17 stalls, a 9,700-square foot mansion with a moat, a skeet shooting range, an olive tree farm and a bocce ball court?
In addition to all the outside accoutrements. the buyer of the 500-acre estate will get a three-bedroom home, kitchen with green Italian marble countertops, wooden-beamed ceilings and carved fireplaces.
Zillow.com has pictures.
This is so making me realize we need a moat around our Berkeley palace. And I do mean something more stylish than the small lake that forms in the basement when it rains and/or the antique plumbing fails.
Cheers.
Related posts:
http://vinecdote.com/blog4/2011/10/for-sale-mondavi-mansion/
http://vinecdote.com/blog4/2011/12/mondavi-mansion-sold/
http://vinecdote.com/blog4/2011/12/mondavi-mansion-sold-to-boisset/
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