For the second straight year, the readers of Condé Nast Traveler have honored the Kenwood Inn and Spa with top honors in the magazine‘s 22nd Annual Readers‘ Choice Awards. The awards are derived from the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Survey, the largest independent poll of consumers’ preferences.  Over 25,000 readers voted this year on 10,000 properties and destinations.

With so many superb hotels with fewer than 50 rooms, this year’s survey unveiled 3 new categories: small hotels in Europe, the United States, and Small United States resorts. Kenwood has been named the Top Small Resort in Mainland USA. 2nd place in the category goes to the Casa Palermo, Pebble Beach, California and 3rd place to Lake Austin Spa Resort, Austin, Texas.

The complete results of the awards can be found in the November issue of Condé Nast Traveler, on newsstands October 20th or on the magazine’s website at cntraveler.com.

Smartly tucked away in Sonoma County’s Valley of the Moon, the Kenwood Inn and Spa is an intimate retreat hailed by wine country aficionados as the ultimate getaway. The 2 ½ acre grounds of the Inn are literally alive with oak groves, walnut and fruit trees.  The Mediterranean-style villa has three lush courtyards – each with an exquisite saline swimming pool – fountains, a serene pond, meticulously landscaped flora, and abundant ivy cascading up, down, and around the Inn.

Private guestroom entrances lead into each of the secluded twenty-nine rooms and suites designed with guest privacy in mind.  In-room indulgences include: fireplaces, featherbeds, Rivolta Carmignani Italian linens for both bed and bath, and plush cotton bathrobes.

Kenwood’s full-service spa highlights the organic products of ARCONA, along with treatments that utilize vinotherapy and the healing power of grapes. The restaurant at the Kenwood Inn & Spa offers yet another compelling draw as it is available only to in-house guests.

Italian-born, executive chef Renzo Veronese shops local farms and farmer’s markets, stocking the kitchen with in-season organics and fresh ingredients and creates a rustic Italian, a la carte menu focused on house made pastas, meats and fish incorporating estate grown fruit as available.