Piedmont, Italy

Le Marne Relais

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR427.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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You never know when inspiration might strike at vineyard-set Le Marne Relais, a creatively inspired country house in Piedmont’s rolling hills. Literati revel in the individually styled rooms that pay homage to regional artists and poets; epicureans gather at the owner-run winery and seasonal restaurant, and families flock to the scenically perched playground. Consider its locally immersive experiences and vine-gazing pool, and you have yourself an all-ages smash hit.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

14, including four suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in, 3pm; both are flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates at Le Marne Relais include a breakfast of local products, such as homemade pastries, cured meats, cheeses, and eggs cooked to order.

Also

Unfortunately, this rural retreat is not suitable for guests with reduced mobility.

Please note

The hotel’s national identification code (CIN) is IT005050B5EGPU78CH

Hotel closed

The hotel opens annually from mid-February until the start of January.

At the hotel

Gym, playground, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV (in all except the Clouds Deluxe room and House in the Vineyards), climate control, tea- and coffee-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes and slippers, Dyson hairdryer and Acca Kappa bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Each room and suite at Le Marne Relais is inspired by a local or national creative, such as authors, poets and artists. You’ll want to stick around in Stay Close, a Junior Suite with a Mother Nature-referencing mural, sage hues and its own spacious garden. The We Cannot Know Suite pays homage to the poet Natalia Ginzburg, and its huge picture windows look like bucolic canvases adorning the walls. The Beauty Exists Deluxe Suite houses the hotel’s only bath tub, and the House in the Vineyards is a treehouse-inspired stay suspended over the estate’s vines.

Poolside

The spa’s heated indoor pool is a contemporary architectural feat: the water is canopied by slanted wooden beams and skylights, and flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows that frame the vineyards and a sunlounger-lined lawn. The pool is separated into lanes, but, if you’d rather a more leisurely dip, you’ll find a cooling plunge pool and sunken hot tub beside it, too. Little Smiths are welcome to join you for a swim, but the hotel asks that all ages are mindful of the spa’s serene atmosphere.

Spa

After a whirl in the spa’s cedar-wood sauna, you might take a Goldilocks approach to testing the three pools — one’s hot, one’s cold, the other is just right. In the sole treatment room, the lavender-bordered views have as soothing an effect as the holistic therapies, which include a sugar body scrub, couples massages, and Japanese-inspired rituals.

Packing tips

Bring a notebook or a sketchpad, depending on whether your room is in the House of Artists or the House of Poets.

Also

The vineyard-ogling gym is decked out with Technogym kit.

Pet‐friendly

Pooches are welcome in Deluxe rooms and suites for €100 each a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Piedmont.

Children

Welcome. A free baby cot can be added to any room; the Suites and Junior Suites also accommodate two extra beds for an additional charge. There’s a playground by the vineyards, and babysitting can be arranged with advanced notice.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

On the edge of Radici’s terrace, for uninterrupted vineyard views.

Dress Code

Take cues from the hotel’s interiors inspiration and add an artistic or poetic edge to your outfit — floaty fabrics, bold prints and statement jewellery will nail this look.

Hotel restaurant

Chef Marco Massaia gives humble Piedmontese cooking a contemporary makeover at Radici. Its views of the vineyards are best admired from the cherry tree-framed terrace, or head for low-lit seduction down in the estate’s original barrel vaults. Nature-nodding tasting menus star alongside à la carte plates; dishes change with the seasons, but you can expect to find regional favourites such as agnolotti del plin (a typical pasta dish) or quail with porcini mushrooms and wild herbs. 

Hotel bar

At the bar on the terrace, your aperitivo — perhaps an Umura spritz (made with homemade apricot liqueur) paired with a platter of local cured meats, cheeses and focaccine — is made all the more picturesque by sunset-washed vineyard views.

Last orders

Breakfast is served between 8am and 10.30am. The restaurant is closed on Mondays; lunch is served from 12.30pm to 2.30pm on weekends only, and dinner is between 7pm and 10pm, Tuesday to Sunday. The bar pours from noon until 8pm.

Room service

Dishes from a dedicated menu can be delivered to your door during regular kitchen hours for an extra charge.

Location

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Address
Le Marne Relais
Strada Pasquana 5
Costigliole d’Asti
14055
Italy

You’ll find Le Marne Relais in Italy’s wine-growing Piedmont region, sitting in the vine-ribboned countryside between Alba and Asti.

Planes

Turin and Genoa’s airports are each less than a 90-minute drive from the hotel. Staff can arrange transfers on request; a one-way ride from Turin for two people is €200.

Trains

Rail routes from Genoa, Milan and Rome call at Asti train station, which is a 20-minute drive from the hotel; staff can organise a pick-up for €55.

Automobiles

You’ll want a set of wheels for cruising through Piedmont’s countryside, plus the quaint towns of Asti and Acqui Terme and big cities, such as Turin, are within easy driving distance. The hotel has free outdoor parking with electric-vehicle charging stations, too.

Other

If you choose to chopper in, you’ll find that the estate has its own helipad.

Worth getting out of bed for

Le Marne Relais is set in Piedmont, the land of wine, truffles and hazelnuts, and the hotel takes the region’s food-rich heritage in its stride. Head for a tour and tasting at the estate’s winery, Mura Mura, where you can sniff and swill fine vintages, plus the house blend. You can go truffle hunting for the alba variety with a local expert and his pooches, bring a hotel-packed picnic on your hike, or take part in a Piedmontese cooking class. Staff can also organise visits to a hazelnut farm or cheesemaker, where you’ll, naturally, get to sample the goods.

Though eating constitutes a sizable chunk of your daily agenda, you can inject a little energy release into proceedings on local running trails, rural horse rides and with alfresco yoga sessions. You could hire an e-bike or Vespa to cruise through the rolling landscape, or soak it up from the skies, on a hot-air balloon or helicopter ride. And little Smiths can get in on the vineyard action, too, at the hotel’s greenery-wrapped wooden playground.

Local restaurants

You’ll find plates as Piedmontese as the setting at hotel Locanda del Boscogrande’s restaurant; tuck into vitello tonnato and hazelnut-themed desserts in the traditional dining room. Family-run enoteca Roma Café and Wines charms with fuss-free regional fare in a local corner of Costigliole d’Asti. Refined, regional classics are showcased at Osteria La Milonga, where candle-lit tables on the terrace are on-point for intimate date nights.

Local cafés

Start your day with buttery pastries, fluffy brioche and strong coffee at Bisco.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this wine-making hotel in northern Italy and unpacked their bottles of rosso and local hazelnuts, a full account of their epicurean break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Le Marne Relais in Piedmont…

We’ve got the scoop on wine-making retreat Le Marne Relais, the latest passion project from gourmet entrepreneur Guido Martinetti, who co-founded all-natural gelato brand Grom. On the estate where he used to cultivate fruits and herbs for his ice creams, Piedmont born and bred Guido established the winery Mura Mura, where tastings and tours will — quite literally — walk you through the fine-tuned process of creating typical blends, such as Barolo and Barbaresco.

But our flavour of the month, every month, is the next-door boutique hotel, Le Marne Relais. It’s sprinkled with regional references — most notably in the rooms and suites that nod to provincial artists and poets — that extend to the locally inspired restaurant, where traditional flavours and close-to-home produce is given a modern spin. The chocolate flake on top is those vineyard-garlanded views, which unfold from Radici’s terrace and the all-wood spa, and wrap the little Smiths-loved playground. 

This decadent stay leaves only the sweetest aftertaste.

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