The Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges wine auction, now in its 63rd year, has unveiled the line-up for this year’s sale as it aims to “keep the momentum” this year, despite signs that prices have been cooling. Jean-Marc Moron, technical manager of the estate described the 2023 vintage as “exceptional in terms of identity, without comparison with its predecessors, which will delight both those in a hurry, and those who have the patience to wait until the wines reach their peak, in ten or twenty years’ time.” As a result, the wines had “remarkable balance… [and] are typically Burgundian in character”, with “unusually high pH levels”, the estate said, in what were extraordinary climatic conditions. The quantity of grapes was “abundant”, it said and in “superb condition and at perfect maturity”, resulting in 150 barrels or pièces across 19 different cuvées. For the third year, the charity pièce comprises a unique blend of the estate’s nine Premier Crus across Nuits-Saint-Georges terroir, the “Cuvée des Bienfaiteurs”, a wine of “finesse and elegance, with rich, deep aromas and a dense texture, prolonged by a long finish”, the estate said. It is also offering the second vintage of the Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru Les Saint-Georges “Sélection de Vieilles Vignes”, Cuvée Hugues Perdrizet, which was named after the man who donated the first vines to the Domaine des Hospices de Nuits back and made from some of the estate’s oldest vines on the Saint-Georges parcel. The wine “promises to be an all-time great for those with the patience
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