It’s late summer time, when farm stands are bursting with colour, piled with vegatables and fruits within the weeks earlier than the season attracts to a detailed. And the place higher to take pleasure in a summer time harvest — or to strive your hand at actions like beekeeping, foraging, even the artwork of ax-throwing — than at a farm or winery resort?
Whether or not you wish to escape to a working farm simply exterior of Nashville; a farm and winery with an inn and “yurt village” within the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia; or a restored distillery and boutique resort on a river in Cognac, France, these getaways for epicures and country-lovers await with recent eggs, jams and meals for the soul.
Bristol, Va.
Nicewonder Farm & Vineyards
Wander this 450-acre farm and winery amid the Blue Ridge Mountains (its viognier, chardonnay and merlot have been winners of the Virginia Governor’s Cup competitors) and also you’ll discover cattle, chickens, vegetable gardens — and a brand new 28 room-and-suite inn. Or you may keep within the “yurt village”: 9 yurts made from cedar, making them really feel extra like cabins, located between the inn and the vineyard’s tasting room. Ebook a yurt and also you’ll have your individual kitchenette and rainfall bathe, in addition to a porch and again deck from which to breathe within the mountain air. Every yurt can sleep two to 6 folks; pets are welcome, too (for a price).
As you may anticipate, meals at Nicewonder are farm-to-table affairs. Hickory, on the bottom flooring of the inn, serves seasonal, Appalachian-inspired dishes — like whipped Spam with home pickles, nori, yuzu sizzling sauce and fried saltines — and overlooks a lake and the winery. There’s additionally a bar and, after all, a wine cellar. And you’ll store for flowers, greens, jams and jellies on the property’s produce market. Actually, you possibly can spend a complete weekend simply consuming and imbibing. But there are miles of trails to deal with, main you previous timber, over hills and close to a creek. You may go for a swim within the infinity pool and, come September, work out in a brand new “health yurt” with spin bikes and train tools, or unwind with a spa therapy within the forthcoming “spa yurt village.” Costs from $335 an evening in August and September, together with breakfast.
Los Olivos, Calif.
The Inn at Mattei’s Tavern, Auberge Resorts Assortment
A former stagecoach cease, this property, located close to the vineyards and farms of the Santa Ynez Valley, has been receiving visitors for the reason that late Eighties. Shuttered in 2018, it reopened this 12 months after a renovation that included new buildings and a brand new title. You may select from 67 rooms, 4 of that are restored cottages relationship to the early 1900s. There are new visitor rooms, every with a patio, terrace or solar porch, located in buildings referred to as Visitor Homes. Additionally new is the two-bedroom Courtyard cottage with a lounge and personal out of doors house the place you may finish the day beside an out of doors fire or in a sizzling tub. The Homestead cottage has two bedrooms and personal out of doors house as properly.
Past your sleeping quarters is the Tavern restaurant, the place lots of the components come from an on-site backyard and the menu focuses on grilled proteins and greens, served indoors or exterior beneath a trellis. For dishes impressed by Chinese language delicacies — assume duck gained tons, soy-braised Chinese language eggplant, crispy pork stomach, spicy peanuts, grilled shiitakes and shrimp toast — pop into Gin’s Faucet Bar, named for the property’s former chef, Gin Lung Gin. Want a caffeine repair? Attempt Felix Feed & Espresso, the place you can even order recent baked items and breakfast. For a cocktail or a glass of wine, head to the Bar. Or placed on a showering go well with and go to the Shed, a poolside bar with informal Mediterranean-inspired fare. After a chew and a dip, hop on a bicycle and go for a experience previous vineyards — or keep put and discover ways to infuse your individual olive oil with herbs from the backyard. Costs from $950 an evening.
Cognac, France
La Nauve Hôtel et Jardin
Whereas France is thought for main wine areas like Bordeaux and Champagne, this restored distillery and boutique resort goals to lure you to Cognac nation in southwest France, dwelling to main producers akin to Hennessy, Martell and Rémy Martin. The resort opened in June in a belle epoque mansion by the Charente River and is a part of the Almae Assortment of motels in addition to a member of the resort community Relais & Chateaux. Its 12 suites are set amid 12 acres of gardens rife with fruit timber, rose bushes and greens. Crack open a favourite novel, ease into the swimming pool, or comply with the gardens towards the river. There, personal canoes await. Or you may board the resort’s boat and go to the city of Cognac. E-bikes are additionally out there.
Meals could be had at Notes, a fine-dining restaurant with a four-course or seven-course tasting menu that makes use of herbs and greens from the property’s gardens, in addition to components from Cognac distilleries and native farms. Alternatively, head over to the previous distillery constructing, which is now Brasserie des Flâneurs, the place the French brasserie menu highlights seasonal produce like ceviche with citrus fruit from the property’s greenhouse. There’s additionally the Bar and Tea Room, related to a terrace the place you may have a pastry (or two) along with your tea or espresso. Must you choose one thing a bit stronger, you may order a cocktail, wine or — what else?— Cognac. Costs from 450 euros, or about $490, an evening, together with breakfast.
Amenia, N. Y.
Troutbeck
This storied Hudson Valley nation property about two hours north of Manhattan has attracted an extended checklist of writers and thinkers, together with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. Du Bois. Within the early 1900s the property was purchased from its unique house owners, the Benton household, by Amy and Joel E. Spingarn, one of many founders of the writer Harcourt, Brace & Co. and a former president of the N.A.A.C.P. (he was the originator of the Spingarn Medal, awarded yearly by the N.A.A.C.P.). At present the 250-acre property is a member of Design Lodges and has 37 rooms and suites. Just lately, it opened Benton Home alongside Webutuck Creek, the place you’ll discover 13 visitor rooms, every with personal out of doors house amid grasses and wildflowers. All look to nature for inspiration, with grass material wallpaper and beds by the Connecticut-based furnishings maker Ian Ingersoll.
Head to the barns — that are lined in timber reclaimed from the previous Tappan Zee Bridge Hudson River crossing — for a health or yoga class, or to make use of the gymnasium and sauna. Outdoors you may play tennis, swim within the pool, stroll by means of a walled backyard in-built 1916, or take a non-public falconry session. You may hike and bike on the property, too. Or enterprise somewhat farther for a fly-fishing tour, or a visit to close by Maitri Farm, the place you may browse produce and flowers (personal excursions are additionally out there). Birders could wish to try the Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy. Different visitors, within the custom of Troutbeck, could merely wish to sit again and converse over a meal. Settle right into a sales space within the Eating Room for seasonal dishes with native components, like spelt ricotta cavatelli with chanterelles and garlic scapes. For bites on the go and late-night snacks, the Pantry gives temptations like salted chocolate chip cookies, espresso cake, brownies and blondies made in-house and out there 24 hours. Costs from $400 an evening.
Franklin, Tenn.
Southall Farm & Inn
Simply 25 miles south of Nashville’s buzzing music scene, this nascent farm and inn gives a buzz of a special kind with seven apiaries that home thousands and thousands of honeybees, together with some 1,300 apple timber, greenhouses (together with an orangerie), formal kitchen gardens, crops and loads of land for foraging fungi and berries. Whereas the property calls to thoughts a historic farm, it has the comforts of a contemporary escape. You may select from 62 rooms and suites, 16 cottages and lots of locations to savor the land’s bounty. For informal meals, strive Sojourner, the place you may start every day with pastries and eggs (lunch and dinner are additionally out there). Even the cocktails are made with freshly harvested herbs and juices. Cease by the Farm Stand for produce, picnic baskets and preserves. And later this 12 months, be looking out for January, a restaurant with a eating room and out of doors patio that plans to supply multicourse menus with components grown at Southall.
If the pastoral views are usually not sufficient to shed your stress, head over to the 15,000-square-foot spa to decompress with remedies that use botanicals and components, some from the farm. You may work out on the health middle, float within the 104-degree mineral pool (there’s an out of doors pool, too), strike a pose on the property’s hilltop meditation and yoga spot, or problem your self on the ropes-and-obstacle course. Runners and hikers can make the most of greater than 5 miles of trails. And there’s no scarcity of extra out of doors actions (some for a price), together with falconry, fishing, bee protecting, archery and ax-throwing. Costs from $559 an evening in August, and from $839 starting in September.
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