While many of the area’s wineries have on-site places to stay, nothing compares with an overnight in the heart of wine country at Keswick Hall, about a fifteen-minute drive from downtown Charlottesville. Built in 1912 as a private residence and later acquired by the widower of designer and ‘90s icon Laura Ashley, it was converted into a hotel flush with Ashley chintz, and then saw several subsequent chapters before undergoing a Covid-era top-to-bottom renovation. In 2021, it reopened under the banner Keswick Hall and ushered in the excellent Jean-Georges Vongerichten restaurant, Marigold.

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