This hotel is wonderful and I can't find anything negative to say at all.
As other reviews have noted, it's five old mansion houses joined together, with an amazing restaurant and whisky bar. Each of the fabulous rooms are named after a winery. We were in Catena Zapata which was absolutely gorgeous, with a huge rolltopped bath in the middle of the bedroom and an enormous four poster bed - so incredibly comfortable.
We were greeted at reception by lovely Ian wearing his tartan trews. We both had streaming headcolds and he sat us down in the loungeroom by the roaring fire to check us in, and then offered us both complimentary whiskies which were fabulous. He then carried our heavy cases up the stairs to our room and showed us where everything is.
We missed breakfast each morning (the beds were so comfortable that we never woke early) and ended up in front of the fire with the papers, caffe lattes and scrumptious homemade shortbread - you really didn't want to step outside.
We had dinner one night in the lovely restaurant where the food was amazing and the staff were lovely.
I know that I'm gushing about this hotel, but we stay in around 15-20 hotels a year and I'm a bit of a hotel junkie - Hotel du Vin is now at the absolute top of my "favourite hotels in the world" list.
It's not cheap, but it's worth it. Stay here. Seriously.









