Places you sleep: vineyard hotels, agriturismi, castles and private villas.
Calistoga wine resorts are spa hotels first, and that is the point of the town rather than a failing of it. Napa Valley’s northern tip sits on a geothermal field, so the water that fills the pools here comes out of the ground hot, and the mud is local volcanic ash. These seven stays put … Read more
Where to stay in Yountville comes down to a question no other town in Napa Valley asks: how far do you want to walk to dinner? A three-star restaurant, two one-stars and a Bib Gourmand sit inside a few blocks of each other here, which means a hotel in town buys you a valley holiday … Read more
Médoc château hotels are rarer than the map suggests. The D2 runs north from Margaux to Saint-Estèphe past some of the most valuable vineyard in the world, and almost none of those estates rent rooms: they make wine, receive visitors by appointment and close the gate at six. The seven below do take guests, they … Read more
Where to stay in Saint-Émilion is a smaller question than it looks. The walled village is tiny, most of the estates around it are working farms with no rooms to rent, and the properties that do take guests are counted in dozens rather than hundreds. These eight can all be booked through our partner: five … Read more
Montalcino estates with rooms are a short list. The appellation is small, most of the producers on it are family farms with no license to take guests, and the handful that do take them have very few rooms between them. Seven of them bottle wine under their own label and rent rooms you can book … Read more
Where to stay in Chianti comes down to a decision most travelers make too late: a village with restaurants you can walk to, or a working wine estate with rooms above the cellar. This list is the second kind. Seven producers between Greve in Chianti and the hills north of Siena rent rooms you can … Read more
Bodegas with rooms in Rioja are rarer than the region’s size suggests: 571 wineries, and only a handful of them will sell you a bed. The six below all make wine commercially and all rent rooms, from a 1583 family cellar in Elciego to a Frank Gehry building that costs more per night than some … Read more
Napa Valley wine resorts fall into two camps: the ones that farm their own ground, and the ones that borrow the view. The difference shows up at breakfast, when you can either walk to a barrel room or you cannot. These eight run from Carneros up to Calistoga, and every entry says exactly what sits … Read more
Château stays in Bordeaux come in two very different shapes: the classified estate that keeps five rooms behind the cellar, and the full hotel built into a working vineyard. Both put you inside the gates of a region where almost everything else runs by appointment. These nine estates all make wine and all rent rooms … Read more
There are more vineyard hotels in Tuscany than in any other region of Italy, and wildly different ideas of what one should be. A Renaissance castle with a restaurant and a spa is a different holiday from a hilltop borgo where the cellar is fifty steps from your room. These eight are all working wine … Read more