Hotel Sommelier is hotel that knows what it is and this is actually harder problem than it sounds. Bardonecchia is serious Alpine ski destination on French border in Piedmont, most properties here optimize entirely for snow variable and stop thinking after that. Sommelier runs parallel optimization for food and wine variable at same time, and result is property that works better than either track alone would produce. Someone made corect design decision here.
Guests have specific profile that makes sense once you understand property - Italian families who ski and also care what they eat in evening, couples doing long weekend in Alps who want mountain experience without standard mountain hotel food situation, occasional foreigner who found Bardonecchia as quieter alternative to overcrowded French resorts just over border. Staff run place with attentiveness that - wine list conversation at dinner is moment where you understand what type of property this actually is, because person at that desk knows what they talking about.
