Hot Property: Former 49er Joe Montana lists 500-acre wine country spread for $49 million

Football great Joe Montana and his wife, Jennifer, have listed their 500-acre estate, with acreage in Sonoma County’s wine country, for $49 million.

[Note, an earlier version of this post referred to the estate as only being in Sonoma County. It has acreage in Sonoma and Napa counties.]

The Calistoga property includes a 9,700-square-foot Tuscan-inspired main house, an equestrian center, two year-round creeks, a pond, a regulation-sized basketball court, a skeet shooting range, a caretaker’s residence, a guesthouse, a swimming pool with a spa, a gym, a bocce court and a producing olive farm.

The main house has a loggia open to the outdoors, a sitting room in an upstairs tower and a climate-controlled wine cellar and tasting room. There are three bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms.

Designed for indoor-outdoor living, the home has an outdoor courtyard with hand-painted frescoes, antique statues and fountains. An outdoor viewing tower has 360-degree views of Mt. Saint Helena and Knights Valley.
 
-- Lauren Beale

Thoughts? Comments?

Photo: Coldwell Banker Previews International and Pacific Union / Christie’s Great Estates have the listing at www.villamontanaestate.com. Credit: Jim Bartsch

Comments

[D]

Who cares, Lauren Beale, Do you know, who really cares.

[Alex]

Calistoga is located in Napa County, not Sonoma. So is it in Calistoga or in Sonoma County?

[syscom3]

The wealthy keep leaving in droves. Soon this state will only have one type of people. The poor.

[mrincomestream]

The truly wealthy left long ago....what you're seeing now is merely the rich and b-listers pulling up roots....the A-List left long ago....and with good reason

California has become a all-hat and no cattle type of place....living off of past glory....and the longer people keep buying into the past glory the worse it will become...it's long past time for a good crash, burn and rebuild...by at least 30 years

[George]

Typical of the entitlement of American homeowners that you should expect to make more on your house than you did from your work. Total earnings from playing football by Montana: about $32 million. Desired capital gain on house: close to $40 million.

This is the problem with America. Think you can make more on asset appreciation than work.

[Joe Nameit]

Either Joe invested in a Madoff Scheme, or he's getting a divorce. You don't justsell that kind of property...unless you have to.