A serious wine cellar is a signal, and the signal is this: the people who run this hotel did not assume that having children ended your interest in good things. It is one of the clearest markers of a property that takes the parents seriously as adults, and it tends to correlate with everything else being done properly too. The hotels in this collection have real cellars. Think a list with genuine depth rather than a page of house pours, a sommelier who is actually on the floor and will talk to you, tastings that can be booked for an hour while the kids are in their club, and vertical or regional selections that reward someone who knows what they are looking at. The better properties run cellar dinners, and several will let you take a bottle to the terrace rather than insisting you finish it in the restaurant. Italian, French, Austrian, and Spanish properties lead here, many of them in wine regions with their own production. The bar for a family hotel is not that it tolerates parents having a good evening. It is that it plans one for them. Below are the top family hotels with a wine cellar, sorted by overall score.