Auctions of Hospices de Beaune is one of the most famous charity demonstration of the world and all the professionals wait for the event on the 3rd Sunday of November.
Wines of the Hospices de Beaune are the blood of Burgundy. they offer to the amateurs the pleasure to drink some good wines and to penetrate in the history of a region and his soil. Acquire a cask of wine of the Hospices is the way to enter in the intimacy of the wine , of the soil, because as said it Salvator Dali: " who knows how to taste, never drinks wine, but enjoys his secrets ".
The secret of the wine of Homes, it is the generosity, that of the nature who(which) offers to the vineyard(vine) an unequalled case allowing him(her) to exhale a quite unique flavor(perfume). But the secret of the wine of Homes.
To acquire a wine of the Hospices, it also is to act as generosity because the products of the Sale of Wines are allocated to the hospital of Beaune, according to the wish of his founder, Chancellor Nicolas ROLIN.
Funds collected during the sale are intended for the charities of the Hospices de Beaune: improvement of the equipments of care (acquisition of a scanner, a MRI), modernization of infrastructures, preservation of historic monuments like the Hôtel-Dieu of Beaune. Besides, since 1945, Hospices support every year one or several other charities, represented by celebrities, by paying in these causes the profits of the sale of a barrel of wine called " part of the Presidents ".