Montage makes list of world’s best new hotels while Sonoma County Third highest homeless population

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Montage makes list of world’s best new hotels

 

Travel + Leisure magazine selected luxury resort Montage Healdsburg to be on its 16th annual list of top new hotels in the world.

The Sonoma County resort, which opened in December, is among 70 properties recognized on the magazine’s so-called “It List.”

Montage Healdsburg is set on 258 acres of oak woodland and vineyards. The property includes a main lodge and 130 bungalow-style guest suites designed to blend with the surrounding landscape.

Elevated bungalows come with stone and wood flooring, airy decks and spacious patios with stone fire pits. Most rooms have outdoor showers. Room rates range from $695 to $1,695 per night; the presidential suite, which spans more than 4,600 square feet, is $10,000 a night.

The resort grounds include pathways lined by lavender and gardenia and lawns spaced among the vineyards. Winemaker Jesse Katz of Aperture Estate in Healdsburg designed the hotel’s vineyard and will use grapes from the property to make estate wines. The resort also has partnered with Sonoma County Bee Company, which will manage the resort’s five-hive apiary and use honey and wax to craft custom products for the on-site spa.

—— Sofia Englund