In which wine region is the Hospice de Beaune held annually where wines are auctioned in November?
Wine auction available through first-hand retail channels. First hand wine auctions are usually arranged by wine industry organisations, and fill promotional or charitable purposes, or are used to gauge the market. The wines sold at such auctions are usually special lot wines, or back vintages stored by the producers. An example of such auctions is the annual wine auction held by Hospices de Beaune in Burgundy, where Burgundy wines from vineyards donated to the Hospices de Beaune are auctioned off by the barrel, and often bought by négociants who bottle and sell the wines to the consumer market. Another example are the
Beaune wine three-quarter of the vineyard surface within Beaune AOC is classified as "Premier Cru". The wines of these vineyards are designated "Beaune Premier Cru" + vineyard name, or may labelled just "Beaune Premier Cru", in which case it is possible to blend wine from several Premier Cru vineyards within the AOC. In 2007, of the total Beaune vineyard surface consisted of Premier Cru vineyards, of which red and white Beaune Premier Cru. The annual production of Premier Cru wine, as a five-year average, is 5,231 hectoliter of red wine and 440 hectoliter of white wine. The "climats" classified as Premiers Crus