Description: Rich, velvety and sure to send you to sleep with a smile on your face – the description can be applied both to the hotel and the wine it serves. Bringing its still-fresh boutique-hotel formula to the ancient northern city, Hotel du Vin York is another notch on the group’s plushly headboarded bedposts. Occupying a 19th-century building that was once an orphanage, the hotel boasts lavish but tasteful decor, courtesy of Farrow and Ball, as well as an elegant French bistro and, of course, a biblically proportioned wine list.