The medium is in the massage
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IT HAD been a trailer park until a few years ago. The Carneros Inn, a sprawling property off Sonoma Highway in California's Napa Valley, is now home to one of the top spas in America. Guests there can indulge in a “soothing goat-butter wrap” or a “blood-orange sugar scrub”. Then there's the “organic harvest paprika facial”. The latest addition to its list of goodies is a hydrotherapy tub stimulating the feeling of lying in a gentle creek. With so many exotic treatments to choose from, what's the inn's bestseller? Nothing more than the bog standard full-body massage. “It has, and always will be, top of the list,” says Jeannie Jarnot, spa director at the Carneros Inn. “Nothing beats a good massage.”
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