Ann's Sonoma Vacation Blog

The four "Swirling Dervishes" - Ann, Mark, Oona and Don - hit Sonoma, CA and explore the intricacies of wine and outlet stores.

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Friday, July 07, 2006

Chateau St. Jean Tower

We learned from the tour that this is the very same tower where Alan Morrison, the original owner of the vineyard in 1823 held out against angry villagers for three days by throwing wine bottles at the only entrance you can see at the bottom. The devout villagers of this Quaker community came to believe that Morrison had made a pact with the devil. Some even claimed that he was growing a tail. At the end of the third day of the "Siege of St. Jean" as it has become known, three villagers managed to find a secret entrance into the tower through a long forgotten system of caves under the vineyard. Morrison was never seen again, although there were scattered reports (none of them believed to be credible) of a "goat man" roaming the vineyard late at night.

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