Wine village gets 5 star hotel

Image Gatien Baron, Sancerre

The lovely French wine village of Sancerre has a new 5 star hotel. Les Hauts de Sancerre, in a converted hilltop chateau above the Loire Valley was due to open its first eight suites rooms this week (on July 1). By next year it will add another eight rooms, and the add a permanent restaurant, a "permaculture" garden, and a landscaped pool. Further expanskon will follow. A spa is also planned.