"California’s wine country is full of architectural homages to Europe, and this one, built in the 1980s by salt heiress Mary Tilden Morton, is a hacienda-style tribute to the Spanish countryside, built from timber reclaimed from a 19th-century barn, long before that sort of thing became a staple of green construction. It’s also modestly sized, by the standards of villas built by heiresses — with the result that now, in its current life as a luxury boutique hotel, the Rancho Caymus Inn remains somewhat intimate, weighing in at a mere 26 rooms and suites." - Tablet Hotels
