Carneros Resort & Spa

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Carneros Resort & Spa’s contemporary aesthetic and retro small-town agricultural theme shatter the predictable Wine Country mold. The semidetached, corrugated-metal cottages look like itinerant housing, but inside they’re snappy and chic, with cherry-wood floors, ultrasuede headboards, wood-burning fireplaces, heated-tile bathroom floors, giant tubs and indoor-outdoor showers.

Linger by day at the hilltop pool, by night at the outdoor fireplaces. Two excellent on-site restaurants. Splurge on a vineyard-view room.

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