Some wine hotels are beautiful, some are memorable.
Winkel Art Hotel is both - and honestly, we think it deserves a place among Austria’s very best wine hotels. Set deep in the vineyard folds of Südsteiermark near Gamlitz, it has that rare, intoxicating mix of style, stillness and total sense of place. You wake up surrounded by vines, spend the day hopping between some of the region’s finest wineries, then return to a hotel that feels every bit as seductive as the landscape outside.
What really wins us over is that the hotel side is just as strong. The rooms come with panoramic terraces or balconies, king-size beds, rain showers and grape-based Vinoble amenities, while the 12-metre vineyard-view pool and panorama sauna make it dangerously easy to cancel all plans and stay put.
And then there is the mood: arty, grown-up, polished but never stiff. Breakfast on the terrace among the vines only adds to the magic. For couples, design lovers and anyone plotting a wine escape with serious wow-factor, this is the one.
9.9 exceptional
Price from
KWD 77 / night
