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Hotel du Vin hotels
A serious wine list and an informal bistro give British historic buildings their new daily rhythm.
Hotel du Vin is the British hotel Robin Hutson and sommelier Gerard Basset opened in Winchester on 1 October 1994, in the former Southgate Hotel. The idea was a good bistro, a serious wine list, and rooms that were not stiff. The atlas files six of the later houses. The Winchester original is the template and is not in this atlas set.
6 Hotel du Vin hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by Frasers Hospitality
- Worldwide: Frasers said in 2015 that Hotel du Vin then had 16 hotels, known for bistros and wine lists. The atlas files six: Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cannizaro House in Wimbledon, Poole, and Stratford-upon-Avon.
- On the atlas: 6 Accessible Luxury
History
Hotel du Vin is the British hotel Robin Hutson and sommelier Gerard Basset opened in Winchester on 1 October 1994, in the former Southgate Hotel. The idea was a good bistro, a serious wine list, and rooms that were not stiff. The atlas files six of the later houses. The Winchester original is the template and is not in this atlas set.
Timeline
- 1994 — Hotel du Vin opens in Winchester on 1 October. Hutson had been managing director at Chewton Glen. Basset had been head sommelier there. A double room was £75.
- 2001 — The Birmingham house is dated 2001 in the atlas, 66 rooms.
- 2004 — Hutson and Basset sell Hotel du Vin to Malmaison's owner, MWB. The two brands are united.
- 2013 — KSL Capital Partners buys the Malmaison and Hotel du Vin group.
- 2015 — Frasers Hospitality completes the purchase on 17 June for £363.4 million. The group then had 29 hotels and 2,082 keys. Cannizaro House in Wimbledon is dated 2015 in the atlas, 50 rooms.
- 2018 — Stratford-upon-Avon is dated 2018 in the atlas, 46 rooms.
The houses to know
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom — Hotel du Vin Edinburgh opened in 2008 at 11 Bristo Place with 47 rooms in a 1743 Old Town triangle that was a poorhouse, an asylum, a science lab, and a blood-donation centre before the wine cellars.
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom — Hotel du Vin Birmingham opened in 2001 inside the 1884 Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital on Church Street, 66 rooms that kept granite pillars and the sweeping stair, Pub du Vin and a bistro where the wards used to run.
- Hotel Du Vin Cannizaro House, Wimbledon, United Kingdom — Cannizaro House has stood on Wimbledon Common since 1705 as Warren House, a Queen Anne pile in Grade II-star parkland that Hotel du Vin took in 2015, about 50 rooms looking at Cannizaro Park, the Orangery on the lawns, All England a short hop.
- Hotel Du Vin Stratford Upon Avon, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom — Hotel du Vin Stratford-upon-Avon opened 1 May 2018 with 46 rooms in two Grade II Georgian townhouses at 7-8 Rother Street, Dexter Moren interiors, 3D Reid on the structure, a French bistro facing the farmers' market.
- Hotel du Vin Poole, Poole, United Kingdom — Hotel du Vin Poole in Poole, United Kingdom
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom — Hotel du Vin at One Devonshire Gardens is Ken McCulloch's 1986 Glasgow boutique, 49 rooms across five B-listed townhouses on a West End cul-de-sac, Hotel du Vin from 2006, Gordon Ramsay's Amaryllis once in the dining room.
Newest openings
- None of the open houses filed in the atlas carry a 2024 or later date.
Opening next
- No named unopened Hotel du Vin was verified.
Every Hotel du Vin hotel on the atlas
United Kingdom
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Birmingham — Birmingham · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Edinburgh — Edinburgh · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel du Vin & Bistro Glasgow — Glasgow · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel Du Vin Cannizaro House — Wimbledon · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel du Vin Poole — Poole · Accessible Luxury
- Hotel Du Vin Stratford Upon Avon — Stratford-upon-Avon · Accessible Luxury
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