See Sacramento area luxury in full tilt at sprawling home with Folsom Lake views
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- Loomis hilltop estate lists for $6.75M with 8,150 sq ft and six bedrooms.
- Includes 3,000‑bottle climate‑controlled cellar, chef’s kitchen, infinity pool.
- Has solar, battery backup, a well and about 10,000 gallons of stored water.
In Loomis — a coveted Sacramento-area community where Tuscan-style estates are nothing new — it takes something extraordinary for a property to rise above the rest.
Behind the private gates of Clos du Lac, where vineyards edge the winding roads, one hilltop estate overlooking Folsom Lake pulls off the Mediterranean spirit so seamlessly that comparisons to the Italian countryside don’t feel like exaggeration.
The home at 9688 Clos du Lac Circle is for sale for $6.75 million, making it the second most-expensive listing in Loomis behind a property at 5687 Ridge Park Drive.
“This is my favorite house, my favorite of all time,” listing agent Madison Fairchild of Coldwell Banker Real Estate said. “Obviously, in the world of real estate, we have the privilege to walk a lot of people’s homes and see how they’re put together and everything that goes into it. And one thing that I can tell you about this property, very specifically, is the amount of attention to detail that went into the build, the aesthetic, the functionality. The level of quality, quite honestly, is unmatched.”
The home is owned by Matt Dilegame, chief operating officer at tourism agency Visit California, and Josh Dilegame. The 8,150-square-foot modern Mediterranean-style residence offers six bedrooms and five full bathrooms, plus a one-bedroom detached casita, on a 4.7-acre lot.
The property comes with one of the defining signatures of Clos du Lac: community vineyards that frame the drive in, soften the streetscape and can even help pay the bills.
Headline amenities
The house is layered with headline amenities, including a great room with walls of glass overlooking Horseshoe Bar beach; a chef’s kitchen that showcases a refrigerated, see-through glass produce display and a 92-inch custom French range; a 3,000-bottle climate-controlled wine cellar; a deluxe tiled dog bath; and a resort-style backyard anchored by an infinity-edge pool built around natural granite outcroppings and spotlighted by fire features, terraces and an outdoor kitchen.
And then there are the home’s front and back views. Fairchild summed up the double-sided spectacle.
“This view is truly one of a kind, when you have Folsom Lake that feels like it’s sitting in your backyard, and then you look out the front of the house and you’re staring over rolling vineyards, and you’ve just got foothills for days,” she said.
In the front yard, there’s a large, stocked pond and massive rock waterfall.
It’s a property built to make the most of sight lines — and built, in a sense, twice.
A remodeling project grows
When the property came on the market seven years ago, Matt Dilegame said he couldn’t get a showing until after the weekend, but the wait didn’t stop him from scouting the neighborhood right away. He drove through Clos du Lac, fell in love with the vineyard-lined, old-world atmosphere, and quickly decided the community’s feel mattered more than whatever condition the house itself was in — so much so that he called his agent to say they had to make a move.
“We came through the community, drove around, and we just basically said, we don’t really care what the house looks like, this is where we want to live, because of the community feel — it felt like you were driving through Tuscany,” Dilegame said. “I remember calling (our listing agent) and saying, ‘We want to hit the market. And he’s like, ‘Oh, the seller won’t show it till Monday.’ And I’m like, ‘Great, I’m going to sneak through the gates.’”
They bought the existing house and lot in December 2019, planning a relatively modest addition. That didn’t last long.
“We sold our last house because we were downsizing,” Dilegame recalled. “We found this house and it was 4,000 square feet, and we basically were like, ‘We just need to add one bedroom and a wine room.’ That was it. It was going to be like 600- to 1,000‑square‑foot addition.”
But expansions have a way of behaving like yeast.
“And then the pandemic hit,” Dilegame said. “(The new plan) was about 6,000 square feet literally a month after we moved in, and I was working from home five days a week, and I’m like, ‘Okay, now I need an office again.’ It just grew and grew and grew.”
One of the area’s largest homes
The estate is one of the largest homes in the region. With more than 5,000 current listings and pending sales in the Sacramento region, only 0.27% — about one-quarter of 1% — are 8,000 square feet or larger, according to Sacramento appraiser and housing market expert Ryan Lundquist.
“Loomis has become a luxury enclave in recent years, and it is home to the highest number of $4 million sales over the past five years in the region,” he said.
The Dilegames’ massive remodel wasn’t just about adding space — it was about orienting the house to its best argument: the lake.
“The idea was to make this kind of the focal point looking out to the lake,” he said, standing in the great room with floor-to-ceiling windows. “Because when you come through the front door here, that’s your first vision of contact.”
And to make that view smack visitors when they come in, they opened the entry.
“We opened everything so you could see all the way through the house from the front,” Dilegame said.
Attention to detail
“Matt and Josh really did an incredible job paying attention to everything that they did, and it was very intentionally built,” Fairchild said.
Dilegame, who’s spent a career helping sell the state’s image to the world, sounds like he’s still a little amused by what he ended up buying.
“It’s a very unique community in that the closest thing we found to something like this in a residential setting is actually in Argentina, where all the homes have vineyards in their front yards,” he said. “The homeowner’s association maintains all the vineyards throughout the community. Every home has its own vineyard. We sell the grapes to local wineries. That helps offset the HOA dues and gives the aesthetic that the community has.”
The varietals lean more French than Italian: Petit Verdot, Petite Syrah and Mourvèdre, Dilegame said.
The wine theme didn’t stay outside. Dilegame said they started making wine during the COVID era as a way to fill the sudden downtime, eventually building out a full on-site production setup and turning out roughly 75 cases their first year. After a few seasons, he said, they’d produced enough to feel comfortable hitting pause on the hobby.
As large as a bedroom, the home’s 3,000-bottle, temperature-controlled wine room and cellar are built for obsession. One glass wall of the wine “cellar” doubles as artwork with bottles displayed and visible from the living room. The wine room is air‑conditioned separately for reds, whites and champagnes.
“Working, promoting California for the last 20 years, I’ve fallen in love with California wine,” Dilegame said.
The kitchen is the other centerpiece — not just because it’s large, but because it’s designed like a stage set for people who actually use it. It comes with a dirty kitchen.
Perhaps the coolest feature, literally, is the custom, glass-front refrigerator designed to act as a centerpiece for organized, fresh produce. Therein, fruits and vegetables look like art on display.
Dilegame admitted the inspiration for the display came from guilty-pleasure television watching.
“I like trash TV, and so I watch a lot of ‘Real Housewives,’” he said, remembering a similar appliance from Yolanda Hadid’s Malibu home from a past season of the show. “For this house, I was like, I’m absolutely doing it.”
And yes, people notice: “I actually had people come in and say, ‘Oh, it’s the Real Housewives fridge.’”
From there, it’s luxury with a wink — and some serious chef-grade backbone. The 92-inch range resembles a model from the premier French heritage brand La Cornue, but was actually customized made by American manufacturer L’Atelier Paris.
The design challenge for the kitchen range was keeping the front yard view intact.
“The other piece that was hard with this is I didn’t want a hood and I wanted a window behind the stove,” he said. “So we put these downdrafts (vents) that pop up when you’re cooking, and you still have the view, but you don’t have the massive hood above.”
Granite outcroppings
Outside, the estate doubles down on its most precious detail: the land itself. The infinity-edge pool was designed and built around large granite outcroppings.
“These rocks are earth,” Fairchild said. “You can’t replicate this. You won’t replicate it.”
And then there’s the quiet of the grounds — the kind of quiet that becomes the luxury, even in a house full of high-tech toys.
“Can you hear that? Nothing,” co-listing agent Parris Krygsman of Coldwell Banker said standing near the pool in the backyard. “That’s how quiet it is all the time. You can decompress, have a cup of coffee, have a glass of wine.”
Dilegame added: “And if you wanted to, you really could live off the grid with this house.”
He isn’t exaggerating. The estate is set up to function almost like a self-contained compound, with a large solar array, battery backup, extensive raised garden beds, and a fish-stocked pond, plus its own well and about 10,000 gallons of stored water despite being on city utilities.
“So we have a massive solar array. We have battery backup. We’ve got 14 giant vegetable garden beds. We have a pond stocked full of fish,” he said. “Even though the house is all on city services, we have our own well and 10,000 gallons of water storage. So you quite literally could live off the grid.”
Technology, in this house, isn’t just about convenience — it’s about setting the mood. Dilegame can enhance the vibe from inside the house to the garden all by phone.
“I push a button (on the phone), and in about 15 seconds, every light in the house will turn on, the air conditioners will turn to a certain temperature, and the music will come on throughout the entire property,” he said.
Fairchild remembers the first time he hit “scene” to create a sunset mood outside.
“I don’t remember what the song was, but I swear to you, it was like I was transported,” she said. “We wanted to cry. We’re like, ‘This is the most beautiful moment,’ with the sun coming down, the music through all the garden, the plants just glowing like they are.”
For Josh Dilegame, his favorite memories of the home aren’t about the finishes at all.
“For me, it’s the birthday parties for the kids,” he said. “There’s just so much space and things they can play on and run around. For me, that’s the best memory.”
And when night comes in Clos du Lac, the luxury isn’t about power, music or lighting — it’s the lack of it.
“It’s a dark community, so you can see stars — not much light pollution,” Josh Dilegame said.
The estate provides substantial space for five cars inside its garages, an amenity well suited for collectors and automotive enthusiasts. An all-day event sponsored at the property by Ferrari, the MadWest Team and Krygsman Group pairs Italian sports cars, wine and luxury real estate, Fairchild said.
