Hospices de Beaune 2024 – Are You Ready for the Élevage!!

The Hospices de Beaune auction is around the corner: November 17, 2024. If you want to join the fun, it’s time to prepare.

This is a charity auction for a good cause, so outside normal investments and evaluation criteria. And remember that generosity is a good thing when making your bid.

Winehog and the Hospice wines

Readers of the Winehog will know that I primarily recommend the Hospice wines to professional buyers, buyers with a need to get many bottles of a 1er Cru or a Grand Cru. This is where the Hospices de Beaune has its strongest merits.

There are therefore special reasons why you perhaps should read the rest of this article, as the Hospices de Beaune offers some possibilities not found elsewhere in Burgundy.

The Hospices de Beaune offers the opportunity to buy full barrels (288 bottles or so) of 1er Cru and Grand Cru wines of the latest vintage … i.e. the 2024 vintage.

This is unique in Burgundy, where six to twelve bottles is the normal allocation for a Grand Cru.

With the Hospices wines, you need to choose the right person to do the élevage for the best results and full hedonistic pleasure from the wine.

If you go on the offensive with the élevage and do more to adapt the wine to a more modern expression – i.e. less impression of the new oak barrels, then you could possibly adapt and transform the Hospice wines into something even more interesting.

The 2024 wines

The 2024 wines are still fermenting in most cellars and still, there are less than two months to the Hospices de Beaune Auction.

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