At the Loisium Wine and Spa Resort in Langenlois, Austria, aestheticians combine the property's best assets to offer vinotherapy--a practice that uses grapes and grape seed oil to improve the skin.

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They also offer an impressive slate of specialty themed weekends including the wine-focused Harvest Weekend, Songwriters Workshop, a BBQ Bootcamp, the girls getaway Cowgirl Bootcamp and the family-centric Mother-Daughter Cowgirl Bootcamp, along with spa packages, golf packages, riding packages, wine packages, romance packages, and so on.

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The 7-bedroom, 13-bathroom home is finished with high-end amenities such as a theater, wine cellar with tasting room, an elevator, 14 fireplaces, a spacious spa with gym and a large swimming pool.

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But for the next five weeks, oenophiles can sip a little closer to home at the historic Claremont Hotel and Spa, just a 15km drive across the Bay Bridge, where the Berkeley Wine Festival is feting all things vino every Friday evening until 24 May.

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And, if gold prices collapse and take the sheen off the gold spa treatment, Ms. Kanokporn has a backup plan: Jacuzzi baths in specially fortified wine.

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Opened in 1789 as a bakery and restaurant, today the 170-room Traube Tonbach is a member of the Relais and Chateaux luxury hotel group, and has expanded to include a spa and fitness centre, a 25-person chapel, indoor and outdoor pools, a wine bar and four restaurants.

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