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The Hospices de Beaune auction is NOW - today - November 16th 2025. 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 …
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I have decided to introduce the possibility to become a sponsor of Winehog. It will be a small addition to the site to profile the friends Winehog and let them explain what they are doing. I offer sponsorships from the wine trade, wine merchants, hotels, restaurants and wine-related products …
Regardless of fortune, fame or occasional financial despair... I like to get a good wine at an affordable and attractive price. Sometimes this is 25 EUR, other times it's 100 EUR ... and on rare occasion I feel tempted to push further ... but to be honest, 200 EUR should involve a full-blown vin …
Sometimes, the wine world throws you a curveball which set the wines and Burgundy in a slightly different light. The visit was Alvina Pernot - the granddaughter of Paul Pernot in Puligny-Montrachet, a relatively new estate, it was started in 2018 - still building experience and taking over more …
Vignerons normally harvest their own vineyards, and get their grapes from their own plots. It seems, however, that an increasing part of the wine production is coming from bought grapes, i.e grapes from vineyards owned by others. This can be a sale of grapes, of juice or even "more or less" …
