Housed in themagnificent Hotel Dieu in Beaune, this charitable institution has since 1443 been the recipient of countless gifts of prime vineyard land, totaling 62 hectares spread over the various communes, which are grouped into 38 different cuvees and auctioned off in barrel on the third weekend of November following the vintage. Each barrel is then “raised” by a negoçiant who has purchased it for sale under his own name, or under contract for an individual or restaurant, or a group such as the Sous-Commanderie de Silicon Valley. 2006 will e the first year that individuals will be allowed to bid on wines without the representation of a negoçiant.

The vines are tended by local vignerons under contract to the Hospices, and after sorting and fermentation under the watchful eye of regisseur Roland Masse (who came from Domaine Bertagna in 1994 to replace the brilliant Andre Porcheret,) are placed in 100% new oak barrels.

Our wines are made by the legendary Jacques LARDIÈRE of Loius JADOT. The greatest repository of Burgundian wine knowledge, Clive COATES, wrote of Jacques LARDIÈRE, “a fountain of knowledge and a man of genius.   You will learn more about Burgundy in a morning tasting with him than in five years’ trekking around on your own.  And you will never be anything less than highly satisfied with his wines. This is a perfectionist... a man of passion and sensuality.  Wine for him is part of the magic of life.”   

Cuvée Françoise de Salins: half a hectare of Le Charlemagne, average vine age 40 years, bequeathed in 1745.  One of the Hospice’s most famous offerings.

Cuvée Philippe le Bon: named for the Duke of Burgundy to whom the hospice’s founder Nicolas Rolin was responsible, the Genevrières Dessous (.4ha) and Genevrières Dessus (.1ha) which form this cuvée was separated in 1955 from the village Meursaults that with it made up the Cuvée Jehan Humblot.

Cuvée Albert Grivault: half a hectare ofMeursault Les Charmes-Dessus donated by the Grivault family in 1904. The vines average 27 years old.

Cuvée Dr. Peste: 13 parcels, average age 28 years, consisting of Corton Bressandes (1ha), Corton Les Chaumes et Voirosses (1ha), Corton Clos du Roi (.5ha), Corton Le Fiétre (.4ha) Corton Les Grèves (.1ha). Doctor Peste worked at the Hospice for a time, and most of these vines were donated by his daughter. The cuvee was first assembled in 1965.

Cuvée Madelaine Collignon: 1.75 hecatres of Mazis Hautes, average vine age 45 years.