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PREMIUM Hospices de Nuits: A Burgundy auction on the rise
Burgundy s other Hospices auction, coming up this month, now offers private collectors around the world the chance to buy wines from the latest vintage, including premiers crus. Charles Curtis MW reports on the event and its history plus tastes four of the wines up for sale.
March 9, 2021 This year s charity pièce , produced only from 70-year-old vines. Proceeds from its sale will go to the Pasteur Institute. Credit: Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges
The format may sound familiar, but rather than the well-known
This year’s auction, featuring 2020-vintage wines, begins Sunday 14 March at 14h00 local time.
Private clients invited to bid at Hospices de Nuits sale 6th January, 2021 by Rupert Millar
Burgundian producer Maison Edouard Delaunay is allowing a limited number of private clients the chance to bid at this spring’s 60th Hospices de Nuits auction.
The Hospices de Nuits owns the monopole of premier cru ‘Les Didiers’
Taking place on 14 March, the sale is normally open to trade buyers only but this year it has been agreed that the négociant can allow a number of private collectors to bid as well.
The Delaunay family has a longstanding relationship with the Hospices, with Laurent Delaunay’s grandfather buying wine from the cellars long before the auction was instituted in 1961.