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USA : West (California)

L’Auberge du Soleil voted among the best hotels in North America by the readers of Travel + Leisure!

Travel + Leisure has just unveiled its annual list of the most beautiful properties in the world, selected by its readers. As every year, Relais & Châteaux dominated this prestigious selection with no fewer than 27 properties making the list.

Ranked among the top hotels in California was L’Auberge du Soleil located in Rutherford, in Napa Valley.

This listing was compiled by Travel + Leisure Magazine between January and March 2007 with the expert support of Harris Interactive. 930,000 of the magazine’s subscribers awarded the hotels a score out of 100 in a secure questionnaire.

You can find the complete listing on the Travel + Leisure website.

Auberge du Soleil
Hotel and restaurant in a vineyard
At the heart of the cabernet-sauvignon, merlot and chardonnay vines of Napa Valley, the French restaurateur Claude Rouas has created a discreet and elegant hotel hidden amongst a grove of olive trees that evoke his love of Provence in the South of France. A handful of houses perched on the hillside offer spacious “maisons” with private terraces where aged French oak floors, colourful chenille fabrics, abstract paintings and fireplaces create an air of romance. The Mediterranean-inspired cuisine features the very best of the region. The spa, which also draws its cue from the land, proposes treatments based on grapes, olives, herbs, flowers, mud and minerals. The 15,000 bottles in the wine cellar promise an oenophile’s journey to the wine heaven as you watch the sun setting on the horizon. ...Read more
United States, Rutherford


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