Cueillette

Its name is the French word for the act of picking fruit — a fitting image for a food-and-wine-focused hotel in the Dordogne valley. Its five rooms are all unique, each one named for a different flower; while the forms of the original architecture remain, they’ve been made over in a colorful modern style, and equipped to a boutique-luxe standard. The hotel’s owner, Oscar Garcia, is an award-winning chef, and his cooking, arguably, is the reason for Cueillette’s existence; ingredients are, for the most part, grown (and picked!) in the hotel’s own gardens and orchards.