The olive has its day in the sun

Villa Mille Rose (House of a Thousand Roses), in the Napa valley town of Oakville, is another of Ainsworth's stops. Here, Italian socialite Maria Manetti Farrow rules over an earthly paradise filled with grape vines, bonsai trees and gardens that seem to sing, thanks to the opera that Farrow pipes through outdoor speakers whenever she's in town. As Farrow's white poodle Gioia trots at her feet, the olive oil maker leads visitors around her grounds and even, when the season permits, sends them home with crates of surplus produce.

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