Villa Embrace featured in Salon Privé
Salon Privé celebrates Villa Embrace as an extraordinary expression of curated living, where fine wine, art, and personal expression define the experience. The villa is celebrated for its owner-curated private wine cellar, rare Embrace Private Reserve vintage, and museum-worthy art collection
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The Art of Wine at the World’s Most Extraordinary Villas
For the modern connoisseur, wine has become more than a collectible or pairing, it’s a lens through which to experience a place. The world’s most extraordinary villas now curate not only art and architecture, but the deeper pleasures of viticulture: cellars that tell stories, tastings that unfold like performances, and vintages chosen not just for provenance, but for personality.
Below, three remarkable estates, in St. Barths, Provence, and South Africa, show how the culture of wine has evolved into the very language of luxury.
Villa Embrace, St. Barth’s
Where refinement meets freedom.
Perched above Gustavia’s harbor, Villa Embrace embodies the art of choice, a place where every detail is personal, and every indulgence feels earned. Central to that experience is a private wine cellar curated by owner Martin Weinberg, whose passion for fine vintages infuses the villa’s elegant rhythm of life.
A personally chosen portfolio of top-rated wines from around the world, Weinberg’s collection bridges continents and moods: the island’s French heritage is reflected in a variety of Burgundies and Bordeaux, with crisp Champagnes for celebration, and delicate rosés that echo the island’s effortless glamour. Each bottle reflects not only pedigree but preference – a collector’s portrait in glass.
Among its rarest treasures is Embrace Private Reserve, the villa’s own signature red wine, a sensuously layered Bordeaux-style blend crafted in collaboration with the artisans of The Napa Valley Reserve, founded by Bill Harlan of Harlan Estate. Produced in St. Helena and aged for 24 months in new French oak, it is available exclusively at Villa Embrace — a testament to the villa’s philosophy of living beautifully through curation and craft.
That sensibility extends beyond the glass. The villa’s art collection includes works by icons such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Eberhard Hückstädt — whose painting also graces the Embrace Private Reserve label — transforming each room into a dialogue between art, pleasure, and place. Like the rest of Embrace, from its topiary gardens to its sunlit terraces, it celebrates life’s most exquisite moments: embrace life, love, family, friends.
Villa La Coste, Provence, France
A symphony of terroir, architecture, and art
In Provence, Villa La Coste redefines what it means to live among the vines. Set within Château La Coste, a biodynamic vineyard and art estate, the villa is part gallery, part gastronomic retreat. Architectural masters — Tadao Ando, Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel — have shaped its minimalist contours, framing vistas of lavender, cypress, and vine rows that stretch toward the Luberon hills.
Guests move seamlessly between design and terroir: morning tastings in the estate’s cellars; Michelin-starred dining at the Château’s restaurants; afternoons wandering among installations by Louise Bourgeois and Richard Serra. The wines themselves, pure, elegant, mineral-rich, mirror the architecture’s restraint. Here, the art of wine becomes both literal and philosophical, a dialogue between nature and creation.
To sip a glass of Château La Coste rosé beneath Ando’s concrete arcs is to experience Provence distilled, a sensory equilibrium of sun, soil, and sculpture.
Delaire Graff Estate, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Where viticulture meets vision
Few places express the harmony of art, wine, and design as completely as Delaire Graff Estate. Founded by jeweller and collector Laurence Graff, this hilltop sanctuary in Stellenbosch overlooks the Simonsberg mountains, a landscape as sculptural as the art that lines its halls.
The estate’s lodges, limited to just ten, open onto private decks framed by vines. Each stay invites guests into the rhythm of the vineyard, where winemaker Morné Vrey crafts award-winning Bordeaux-style blends and Chardonnays that have become benchmarks for South African excellence. Tastings take place in The Wine Lounge, surrounded by Graff’s private art collection, canvases and bronzes that elevate oenology into an aesthetic experience.
At Delaire, wine is not a diversion but a defining principle: a balance of precision and pleasure, craftsmanship and expression. Like a fine diamond, it reflects its maker’s eye for perfection.
The Art of Living Well
Across continents, these villas reveal a shared ethos, that true luxury lies in curation, not accumulation. Whether on a French vineyard, a Caribbean hillside, or a South African mountain, the art of wine becomes the ultimate gesture of living beautifully: a celebration of place, of time, and of taste refined to its purest form.
In the world’s most extraordinary villas, the cellar is no longer hidden below ground. It stands at the heart of experience, a quiet stage for the ritual of pleasure itself.
