8 July 2026
Sleep where Sula began: a night at The Source
Sula's heritage resort in Nashik sits, by its own telling, on the site of the company's first winery, with vines, Deccan hills and Gangapur Lake all around.
Every wine country eventually works out that visitors want to stay the night, and Nashik got there in style. The Source at Sula is the estate's answer, built on the site of what the house calls Sula's historic first ever winery, the one they credit with heralding Nashik's rise as India's greatest wine region. They go as far as calling it India's first heritage winery resort. Big claims, but the setting does most of the persuading for them.
The place photographs like a daydream of somewhere between Tuscany and the Deccan. A long cream villa with a red-tiled roof, arched verandas and lavender-grey shutters sits against a wooded hillside, fronted by a garden of palms, stepping-stone paths and a lotus pond. Inside, the lounge rises a full two storeys, with vast arched windows, wing chairs and cane armchairs scattered across a honey-coloured floor. By the house's own telling, the rooms look out over Sula's vineyards, framed by the Deccan hills and reaching towards Gangapur Lake.
Pick your perch
Rooms are named after the world's famous wine regions, they say, and there are nine types to choose between. Vintage Rooms start at 330 sq ft, the duplex Tower Suite gets a white marble living floor, and the Hermitage Suite tops out at 1,150 sq ft with a soaking tub and a grand balcony over vines, hills and lake. The wild cards are the tree houses, 270 sq ft cabins on stilts that the house says its own artisans crafted in acacia wood. Book the vineyard-view version and you wake to rows of vines with, as they put it, not even a picket fence to block the view. Their photographs back this up: a four-poster draped in white netting, a private deck, and green rows running clear to the horizon.
The wine part
This being Sula, the grape is never far away. A stay comes with a complimentary winery tour and tasting, by the house's own telling, and there are four restaurants to work through: La Bodega, Tasting Room, Rasa and Starlight Terrace. Between meals there is a temperature-controlled outdoor pool with a jacuzzi, a spa and fitness centre, and bicycles for pottering through the vineyards. Breakfast is a buffet, and the house rules are firm on one point worth knowing: no pets.
We should say we have not published rates here, because the hotel's own site does not display real ones. What we can say is that a vineyard stay this photogenic, pitched by the house as a resort near Mumbai and sitting on the site of Sula's first winery, is exactly the sort of place we like to haggle over. Tell us your dates below and our concierge will make it happen. When we land a deal here, members hear first.
Inside The Source at Sula
The rooms
Vintage Room
330 sq ft with garden or hill views. The house pitches these as its Tuscany-in-Nashik rooms, roomy enough for families. The photographs show sage-green walls, a cane-backed king bed and a pair of armchairs. Winery tour and tasting included.
Vintage Grand Room
A 400 sq ft step up with a separate living room and a garden-view bedroom. The house says these are among its most requested rooms. Winery tour and tasting included.
Courtyard Room
300 sq ft off the resort's cobbled courtyard, which does a fair impression of a European square with its vintage fountain and cafe chairs. Each room gets its own wicker swing, they say, and sits centrally in the resort.
Grand Cru
400 sq ft with a sitting area and a large private balcony. Every piece of furniture was handpicked, per the house, and the photos of a green velvet sofa and sunny striped armchair rather back them up.
Tower Suite
A 578 sq ft duplex in the resort's tower. White marble living floor and balcony below, king bedroom and bath above, with garden, Gangapur dam and mountain views by the house's telling.
Vineyard Suite
A 1,000 sq ft suite the house calls its biggest, though its own Hermitage runs larger, with a large living room and a balcony the house recommends for a glass of wine at sunset.
Hermitage Suite
1,150 sq ft on the second floor (no lift), with a grand balcony over vineyard, hills and lake, white marble bathroom and a soaking tub. The television lives in the living room.
Tree House Vineyard View
270 sq ft on stilts with an unbroken line over the vines to the backwaters and Sahyadri hills, per the house. A four-poster in sheer netting and a private deck; the best seat in the house, they reckon.
Tree House Garden View
The same 270 sq ft cabin, crafted in acacia wood by the house's own artisans by their telling, facing the gardens rather than the vines. Deck, bathrobes and all.
Amenities
Temperature-controlled outdoor pool and jacuzziSpa and fitness centreComplimentary Sula winery tour and tastingFour restaurantsVineyard cyclingBreakfast buffetFree Wi-FiFree parking
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Stays featured in the Journal are part of the Indiaesque collection. All information believed correct as of 8 July 2026. Errors and omissions excepted.
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