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Examiner
July 2010
Bardessono: California's most sustainable hotel
If you are looking to escape the recent heat surge in Los Angeles, why not try an excursion north to one of the most sustainable luxury hotels in North America: Bardessono Hotel Restaurant, and Spa. A little more than a year old, the 62-room hotel, spa, and restaurant received the highest certification possible from the United States Green Building Council, LEED Platinum - an honor shared by only three other hotels in the world.
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InStyle
July 2010
Hot Hotels
Luxury meets sustainability in the Napa Valley. Bardessono’s refreshing, green guestrooms are dressed in organic linens and built to accommodate in-room spa services. Typical of the region, food and wine are the stars.
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Examiner
June 2010
San Francisco's Best
My mission was to have a Bardessono "experience", exploring the pleasures of this relatively new, green, luxury hotel, spa and restaurant. Impressive in any weather, Bardessono's clean lines and modern aesthetic were a welcome distraction from the storm.
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Travel+Leisure
May 2010
Best New North American Hotels of 2010
This 62-room Napa Valley newcomer is upping the ante on green design: built almost exclusively from salvaged stone and reclaimed wood, it’s the world’s second LEED-certified Platinum hotel.
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Interiors and Sources
April 2010
Photo Essay: Where Luxury Meets Sustainability
A new LEED Platinum hotel in Napa Valley—and the first in California—blends the wine country’s agrarian character with a design as refined as the wines for which it is known.
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Examiner
April 18, 2010
Top 10 San Francisco Bay Area Eco-Spas
Solar panels, salvaged building materials, organic, locally sourced spa products and linens, you name it, they’ve done it. Bardessono has not only incorporated real ways to conserve water, energy and power into their spa/resort, but they’ve done it with beauty in mind.
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New York Post
April 15, 2010
Linger longer in California
Our pick is sexy Bardessono, literally behind Thomas Keller’s famed Bouchon restaurant. One of two LEED Platinum-certified hotels in the US, it features 62 sleek and suite-like rooms with massive bathrooms that include Jacuzzi tubs and outdoor showers.
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7X7
March 2010
Headed Up To Napa? The Grass Has Never Been Greener
The greenest place to stay in Napa is the platinum-LEED- Certified Bardessono. This sleek, modern hotel was constructed of wood from salvaged trees and recycled concrete and uses almost no off-site energy. The rooms—all suites—feature glass-walled showers, spa tubs (which get filled with geothermally heated water) and organic bed linens. Even the products used to clean your room are organic.
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Elle Decor
March 2010
Green Getaways
Bardessono, in Yountville, California, was recently awarded LEED Platinum certification, which is the highest official recognition for sustainable design. Wood from salvaged trees and stone blocks from an old wine cellar are among the recycled goods used in the design of this serene Napa Valley hotel, and geothermal wells heat and cool the 62 airy guest rooms
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Press Release
January 2010
BARDESSONO HOTEL, RESTAURANT AND SPA - California's First and Only LEED Platinum Hotel
Bardessono has just received the highest level of official recognition possible for its sustainable and environmentally friendly design. The hotel has been awarded LEED Platinum certification, an achievement reached by only two other hotels in the world, on the first anniversary of its opening.
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Los Angeles Times
January 2010
Planning your trip to Napa
If you’d like to keep with the green Napa theme, this stylish, sustainably designed hotel is the place. Rates for spa suites begin at $325.
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Organic Spa
December 2009
Rest with the Best
If you want to experience true green luxury, check out this modern hotel in the heart of Californian”s wine country. Bardessono is a LEED Platinum-aspiring hotel, spa, and restaurant that”s located in Yountville on six tastefully landscaped acres with drought-tolerant foliage, organic herb gardens, and vineyards.
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Travel + Leisure
September 2009
Yountville, CA’s Upscale Explosion (PDF)
Bardessono: Spread over six acres of vineyards, this modern inn has a rooftop lap pool, 62 earth-toned guest rooms with private patios, and plenty of eco cred: it’s built with reclaimed wood and clad in solar panels. Doubles from $450.
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Robb Report
September 2009
Sublime Simplicity (PDF)
“Simplicity is Luxury,” says hotelier Phil Sherburne in describing his vision for Bardessono, a resort and spa in the Napa Valley town of Yountville. This summation is particularly appropriate to the 62-room property not because of its minimalist architecture or Zen-like landscaping, but because of the ida embodied by the serene, flowing complex: that beauty arises from the thoughtful balance of simple elements.
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Concierge
September 2009
Traveler Image
Being green has never felt as good as it does at Bardessono, whose main assets are its stumbling distance from more Michelin stars than any Paris pied-à-terre, paired with the atmosphere of an agrarian retreat. After check-in, done via a staffer’s hip-slung electronic tablet, it’s a short walk to the hotel’s four courtyards, where stone walkways curve alongside meandering streams.
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Gourmet
June 2009
TRAVEL SMART: NEW DIGS IN WINE COUNTRY (PDF)
“The greenest luxury hotel in America,” is how the new Bardessono bills itself. So I was expecting to find it set in one of Napa Valley’s verdant vineyards and drove right past the place, which is smack dab in the middle of Yountville (and only a couple of blocks from The French Laundry).
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Condé Nast Traveler
May 2009
Hot List - World’s Top New 140 Hotels (PDF)
Consider it a silver lining: Hot hotels continue to open in record numbers despite the recent economic overcast, and many are more affordable than ever.
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Napa Valley Register
May 2009
Breakfast, lunch and dinner at Bardessono
So, when a hotel aspires to be “the greenest luxury resort in America,” what’s on the menu? You don’t have to be a guest at the Bardessono to find out. The high-end resort and spa, which opened in Yountville in February, aspires to be not only eco-friendly, but local-friendly as well.
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Star Chefs
May 2009
What to Eat and Where to Stay in California’s Wine Country
The pace in California’s Northern Wine Country can be slower, luring chefs who crave a change in lifestyle. It’s a sommeliers paradise, but it’s also an oasis for any culinary professional who wants to slow down and master his/her craft.
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Time Magazine
May 2009
The Green Design 100
Bardessono has been chosen as one of TIME Style & Design’s GREEN DESIGN 100. This is the first time TIME Style & Design has singled out a DESIGN 100 focused entirely on the best and brightest in environmentally conscious design from around the globe.
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Lux Life
April 2009
Luxury Goes Green at Bardessono (PDF)
Shower under the stars. Swim in the rooftop pool as the sun sets over the Mayacamas. Pamper yourself with holistic East-meets-West spa experiences without ever leaving your room.
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American Spa
April 2009
Green Getaway (PDF)
Green-minded Napa Valley vacationers are raising a glass to Bardessono, an eco-friendly luxury resort in Yountville, CA.
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San Francisco Chronicle
April 2009
Indulgences: Luxurious places know how to rub you the right way (PDF)
While lying slathered in goat butter on a bed of warm bubbling water may not be the most measured response to an economy in free fall, the truth is that in bad times people want to feel good.
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Jamble Mag
April 8, 2009
Luxury Bardessono eco-resort opens in California
Bardessono, a 62 room hotel spa and restaurant, opened its doors in California’s Napa Valley in February, and the aim of becoming the greenest luxury hotel in America.
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Lux Life
March 17, 2009
Luxury goes green at Bardessono
Shower under the stars. Swim in the rooftop pool as the sun sets over the Mayacamas. Pamper yourself with holistic East-meets-West spa experiences without ever leaving your room.
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SF Gate
March 4, 2009
It isn’t easy being green - Despite obstacles, eco-developer sees business opportunities in sustainable building methods
Phil Sherburne is featured in the San Francisco Chronicle in an article about his background, history as an eco-developer, and business opportunities using sustainable building methods.
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Northbay Biz
March 2009
Home Town Luxury
NorthBay biz profiles Yountville’s Bardessono, a 62-room lair of luxury that’s raising the bar for sustainable hotels across the land.
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Nappy Valley Life
February/March 2009
Romance in the Napa Valley (PDF)
Discover the Bardessono, America’s greenest luxury Hotel & Spa. A deliciously restorative retreat now open in Yountville.
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New York Times
February 2009
A Breath of Fresh Greenery
In the lobby of the Bardessono hotel, which recently opened in Napa Valley, four alcove panels are filled with epiphytic air plants (tillandsias) simply clipped onto metal rods.
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Press Release
January 28, 2009
Seattle Powerhouses Collaborate on Napa Valley’s Greenest Hotel
When the time came to form a design team for his latest ecohotel, spa and restaurant, acclaimed developer Phil Sherburne went where many visionaries and prophets do not: home.
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Press Release
January 26, 2009
Acclaimed Chef Creates Organic Magic
At Napa Valley’s Greenest Luxury Resort January 26, 2009, Napa Valley, Calif-- As executive chef for Napa Valley’s newest luxury hotel, Sean O’Toole wants dining at Bardessono to be a nourishing experience, a summoning of favorite meals from your past.
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Press Release
January 20, 2009
Earth Tub Composts Kitchen Waste At Napa Valley’s Newest Eco-Resort
To put it simply, the Earth Tub System is a giant vessel. It’s a 68- inch by 90-inch, 450-pound, fully enclosed food waste composter powered by an auger motor and aerobically filtered by a bio-filtrating air purification system. The latter is essential for keeping odors at bay.
