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When This Embassy Suites Opens Next Year, It Will Have Its Own Wine Label
Hotels putting out their own brand of wines is nothing new but it is quite unusual to hear of a private wine label from an Embassy Suites Hotel. Yet when the Embassy Suites opens their hotel in the Horn Rapids golf community of Richland, Wash., next year that's exactly what the hotel will have.
The hotel will sit on three acres of vineyard which will be open for guests to tour and explore. Grapes from the vinyeard will be used to make the private label wine that will be sold exclusively at the hotel and of course, offered in the hotel's full service restaurant and Bistro wine bar.
But don't worry, you won't be stuck drinking just Embassy Suites wine. The hotel promises to feature over 160 wines from wineries located within 60 minutes of the hotel.
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Boozy B&B’s: Casa Lapostolle's Residence
We love us some wine travel—the tastings, the food, the activities, and especially the long naps. That’s why it’s important to find just the right place to stay wherever we go wine-tasting in the world, and why HotelChatter contributor Eric Rosen fills us in on a boozy B&B he visited on a recent trip to Chile.
Since it’s #WineWednesday, we got to thinking about some of our recent wine adventures including a visit to Chile’s famous Colchagua Valley, where we happened upon a little Relais & Chateaux property at one of the area’s best-known wineries: Casa Lapostolle.
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Inside the Hotel Yountville, in the Thick of Napa Valley
It’s been a while since we hit the Valley. Napa Valley, that is. But we had a hankering for great wine and fine food last month, so we headed up to NorCal for a little bit of epicurean living, and while there, happened to stay at the newest hotel in the Valley: the Hotel Yountville.
Of course you're invited in to take a look at our exclusive photo gallery and walk-through video of our Premium Suite, but hands off the wine...
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You May Now Feel Good About Drinking Kimpton's Free Wine
Already known for their lobby happy hours, Kimpton Hotels are further stepping up their booze game with a new Wines That Care program. The new selections, which will be served up in all 51 Kimptons, have been picked because the vineyards involved are using socially or environmentally conscious practices. Which is awesome, because we now have an extra excuse to enjoy their fine, free booze with a clear conscience.
Among the brands now on offer are French Rabbit, biodynamic wine which comes in Tetra Pak to reduce packaging weight and cost, Citra Wines, an Italian brand that's donating calling cards to soldiers serving overseas, and Banrock Station, the Australian vineyard that donates a portion of sales to preserving wetlands worldwide.
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How To Keep Warm In The Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale's Ridiculuxe Wine Vault
When we hit up South Florida, we like it hot. But with 5,000 bottles of wine, the Wine Vault at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale has to be kept cool--55 degrees, to be precise. So, to keep vino fans warm while they taste wines or enjoy a private dinner in the vault, the hotel has come up with a rather glamorous solution: faux-fur stoles.
The stoles are available as loaners for special evenings like the $50-a-head Flight of Six Wines tasting and the Five Course, Wine-Paired Culinary Journey, which is $125 per person.
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Inside The Wine Valley Inn in Solvang
The other weekend we made a trip up from Los Angeles to Solvang, Calif, a town most-known for its cameo in the movie "Sideways" and for its Danish settlement. For those with a Danish fetish, there is no better place to be--except Denmark of course.
We were lucky enough to visit Solvang during their Danish Days festival weekend which closed down the streets to celebrate the traditional ways of the Danish. This included aebleskiver-eating contests, dances in traditional garbs, and even some odd viking weaponry displays.
Cultural fetishes aside, Solvang is a great place to stay when visiting wineries in Santa Ynez or attending a wedding nearby, which is our reason for visiting. While the Hotel Corque is the more upscale option, we chose the Wine Valley Inn which has a central location in Solvang and rather reasonable room rates. However, not all rooms are created equal.
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A Wine Spa and a Decanter-Shaped Pool: The Yeatman in Porto Sounds Fun
Will your eye be drawn to the apple-colored walls or the UNESCO-rated view outside? The choice is yours
We love hotels and we love wine here at HotelChatter, so a wine hotel is a pretty much guaranteed win for us. So we’re hoping that The Yeatman – which opens July 15 in the port-making district of Oporto, Portugal – will live up to our hopes.
It's sounding solid: for a start, there’s a 25,000 bottle-strong wine cellar (including, of course, a mammoth selection of port) with a restaurant run by a Michelin-starred chef to sop up the alcohol.
But perhaps most exciting is the vinotherapy (or vinotherapie, seeing as it’s French) spa, which is going to be run by Caudalie. We’ve heard fantastic things about their spas before (there are only a few dotted round the wine-beats of Europe, and we’ve never got to try one) but we’ve tried and liked the products, and there’s nothing we’re liking more than the idea of being wrapped up in vine leaves and having red wine drizzled over our dry bits.
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Get Tipsy at the Hotel Del Coronado for Just $10
We were looking to unwind with a glass of wine while watching the sunset at the Hotel del Coronado, so we headed to Eno, a wine bar that serves cheese and chocolates. There we found a great wine-tasting deal: 10 wines for $10. Why, that's less than the hotel's ridiculous $25 resort fee!
In lieu of happy hour, every Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m., Eno hosts wine tastings. The outdoor patio was packed with wine sippers at the communal tables when we strolled in around 5:30 p.m. While the indoor section of the wine bar had plenty of free seats, we wanted a view of the water, so we stayed in the patio and hung out in a corner.
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Keswick Hall Plants the New Hotel Trend: A Vineyard
Wine-pairing dinners at a hotel restaurant? Wine tastings in the lobby? These are all things we can get behind but we'll raise our glasses even higher to the newest hotel trend: hotel vineyards.
The latest hotel to get planting is Virginia's Orient-Express jewel, Keswick Hall, where they expect the first harvest in the fall of 2011 or 2012, depending on the quality of the vines.
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There's Plenty of Room to Pop the Cork Inside Hotel Corque
Sorry, we couldn't resist a punny headline!
The other week we told you about the sumptuous meal we scarfed, er, politely nibbled, at Root 246, Bradley Ogden’s new restaurant at the Hotel Corque in Solvang. Today, we’ll show you a quick walk-through video and some snapshots we took of our spacious room at the hotel.
The Corque used to be the Scandinavian Inn, but after it was purchased in 2007 by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians (who also own the nearby Chumash Casino Resort), the Chumash initiated a complete renovation overseen by the architectural firm of David Bury. The hotel was then reopened in the spring of 2009. You know how we love newly renovated rooms, so we decided to spend the night and check this new look out.
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Digging Root 246: Bradley Ogden's Resto At Solvang's Hotel Corque
Bradley Ogden’s family of restaurants includes the storied Lark Creek Inn in Marin, and Bradley Ogden at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Last year, he opened Root 246 at the new Hotel Corque in Solvang, the Danish-themed town in Santa Barbara’s wine country, where Ogden now spends much of his time. During a recent overnight stay at the Corque, we got the chance to sample Ogden’s menu, which reads like a love letter to California produce.
Standing out from the other dining options in town (Danish pancake breakfast, anyone?), Root 246 is comprised of several distinct spaces. Guests can have a drink or nosh on small plates in the expansive, casual front patio with a fireplace in the corner, or head inside to any of the three interior elements of the restaurant.
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A Castle and a Michelin-Rated Restaurant in the Loire Region
There are plenty of things we're lusting after this holiday: champagne, gifts, a much-needed break from the pain in the arse that is Christmas shopping, and as always, hotels. This week, our amour is directed at a château in France's Loire region, Domain Des Hauts de Loire.
Everything about the hotel looks—commence elementary French—très magnifique, from its natural surroundings, two hours outside of Paris' traffic-clogged streets, to the fact that you have a choice of rooms in either the resident or the castle portions of the property. How many Stateside hotels can claim to be castle-adjacent?
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