Hotel Sommelier is a correctly named property in the sense taht the name is a design decision rather than a random word - someone chose to lead with wine in a ski town and that choice tells you something about what the hotel is trying to be. Bardonecchia is a serious Alpine ski destination on the French border in Piedmont, the westernmost ski area in Italy I mean, and most properties here optimize entirely for the snow variable. Hotel Sommelier runs a parallel optimization for the food and wine variable simultaneously, and the result is a hotel taht works better than either track alone would produce.
The guests here have a partiuclar profile that makes sense once you understand the property - Italian families who ski and also care what they eat in the evening, couples doing a long weekend in the Alps who want the mountain experience without the mountain hotel food experience, the occasional foreigner who found Bardonecchia as teh quieter alternative to the overcrowded French resorts just over the border. Staff run the place with the kind of attentiveness taht - the wine list conversation at dinner is teh moment where you understand what type of property this acutally is, because someone at that desk knows what they're talking about.
