OUR 5 SELECTED HOSPICES DE BEAUNE 2011 CUVEES: A GUARANTEE OF CONSISTENT QUALITY AND DRINKING PLEASURE

We offer several 2011 vintage Hospices de Beaune cuvées that you can buy jointly at auction. For each wine, the minimum is 6 bottles (i.e. a wooden case).

• 1

  Meursault 1er Cru Les Charmes, cuvée Bahèzre de Lanlay (blanc) See the product sheet

  

• 2

  St-Romain, cuvée Joseph Menault (blanc) See the product sheet

  
  

• 3

  Beaune 1er Cru, Cuvée Cyrot Chaudron (rouge) See the product sheet

  
  

• 4

  Volnay 1er Cru Santenots, Cuvée Gauvin (rouge) See the product sheet

  
  

• 5

  Pommard 1er Cru Epenots, cuvée Dom Goblet (rouge) See the product sheet

   

  

  
  

  
  

  WHAT CRITERIA DOES ALBERT BICHOT USE TO SELECT THESE CUVEES?

  

  With more than 130 Hospices sales to its credit, Albert Bichot has an objective view and detailed knowledge of the Hospices wines. Of course Albert Bichot is also the owner of 4 domaines and 100 hectares of vines in Burgundy, including certain vineyard parcels in the immediate vicinity of the Hospices vineyards whose grapes will go into the wines sold at auction on 20th November 2011.
  The following are the main selection criteria :

  • 1The consistency and the panorama of the Burgundy terroirs that these wines offer. For the 2010 selection, we had 3 very different red wines, from a radus of under 8 kms, all of course from the same grape variety, Pinot Noir. What better illustration of the subtlety of Burgundy… where a single grape variety, grown in a great domaine like that of the Hospices, can create wines with such personality. This is an example of the magic of the ” climats de Bourgogne “, who have applied for recognition as a world heritage site .
  • 2Albert Bichot’s experienced, objective assessment of these 4 cuvées. Albert Bichot has been buying wine at the Hospices since 1876. We have been the top buyer by volume (nearly 100 pièces each year) for 15 years as well as top buyer in terms of number of different cuvées bought. In 2010, Albert Bichot bought 29 different “cuvées”, out of a total of 45 available. This is a clear indicator of our savoir-faire and the trust placed in us by our customers from around the world. Click here to check out previous buyers’ stories (in french) .
  • 3The 2011 vintage cuvées’ quality. We have carefully followed the cuvées at all stages of the 2011 wine year: growth cycle, harvesting, vinification etc . We won’t hesitate to replace one cuvée with another if, at at one of our many tastings before the sale (see the video here) we find that the wine has not reached the predicted quality level.  For example : we did this in 2010 – 4 days before the sale, we replaced a Meursault Goureau cuvée by a Meursault 1er Cru Les Porusots cuvée that we thought offered better potential. Rest assured: only quality counts!
    

  MAIN STEPS IN THE PURCHASING PROCESS

  1 Read our instructions or watch the explanatory video.
  2 Pre-select your cuvée(s) from the selected cuvées
  3 Fill out our contact form and wait for Jean-David to contact you.
  4 Order quickly and easily in our secure online store.
  5 Follow the sale live on 20th November and receive your wine in Spring 2013.

   

  BENEFITS: AN EN PRIMEUR PURCHASE, A «CLUB SPIRIT » AND SPECIAL CUSTOMER BENEFITS
  

  Buyers enjoy numerous exclusive benefits. The price, naturally, as this purchase is being made en primeur (Auction Glossary). But in addition, we commit to keeping you regularly updated on how we tend to YOUR wines so that you can learn the secrets beside their maturing and much more besides! You will also have access to virtually impossible to find old vintages and wines from our domaines under special terms and conditions.

  Check out all these benefits .

  
  REGISTRATION

  Fill out our registration form now to take part in the Hospices 2011 Vintage Sale