Corton Grand Cru Cuvée Charlotte Dumay

Corton Grand Cru Cuvée Charlotte Dumay
Domaine des Hospices de Beaune
COMPOSITION
This Cuvée is composed from the
following plots:
Les Renardes, Les Bressandes
Total area : 2,66 ha
STORY OF THE CUVÉE
This gift to the Hospices was made in gothic lettering on parchment, in 1534. “For the cure and salvation of her soul,” the
childless Charlotte Dumay, wife of the King’s Keeper of the Mint in Dijon, gave 100 ouvrées of vineyard and fallow land in
the territory of Aloxe, with a house in stone.
TERROIRS & DESCRIPTION
Today, this is one of the Hospices’s longest-lived, most sumptuously structured wines. Corton-Renardes makes up 63% of
the Cuvée, Corton-Bressandes the balance, the vines being planted on a total of 24 different sectors of the famous hillside.
ABOUT THE WEBSITE HOSPICES-BEAUNE.COM
The website www.hospices-beaune.com was founded in 2009 par Maison Albert Bichot, a family-owned wine house founded in 1831.
For the last 15 years, Albert Bichot has been the number 1 buyer at the Hospices de Beaune wine auction, a proof of the
commitment of the house for the wines of this very special domaine and its expertise in their ageing process, a true savoirfaire recognized by our clients throughout the world.
On a daily basis, Jean-David CAMUS takes care of this website. He proposes all wine lovers to buy en primeur (as futures)
wines from the Hospcices de Beaune estate at the auction that takes place every year on the 3d Sunday of November. There
are two options : to buy a minimum of only 6 bottles within a selection of cuvées or a full barrel (288 bottles) within the
45 cuvées available. Beyond the opportunity to buy Hospices de Beaune wines, the website www.hospices-beaune.com
proposes wine-lovers many news about all things Burgundy, wines, gastronomy and history.
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