Yesterday, 828 barrels were sold for a total of €13,951,000 !
The "Pièce des Présidents", which this year included two barrels : a Corton Grand Cru - Clos du Roi and a Meursault 1er Cru "Les Genevrières", was auctioned for €230,000.
154th charity auction at the Hospices de Beaune (10/30/2014)
Adriana Karembeu and Michel Drucker will chair the 154th charity auction at the Hospices ...
Before the French Revolution, trade was organised by cooperatives and wine was sold by the intermediary of barrel makers and sworn wine brokers. These cooperatives had their headquarters in Beaune or Dijon and abided by very strict rules. The transportation of wine in barrels was carried out in very difficult conditions. It was only in Louis 14th's reign that Burgundy wines were to experience greater fame, from the moment when those high up in...
Domaine Faiveley is located in France, at the heart of Viticultural Burgundy, between Dijon and Beaune in Nuits-Saint-Georges.
Historically based in the Côte de Nuits capital, the Faiveley family has progressively extended its domaine and today owns vineyards in the finest climats in Burgundy - Gevrey-Chambertin, Pommard, Volnay, Puligny-Montrachet, Mercurey and others. The vineyards are very fragmented. The average surface area per appellati...
Harvests usually happen in September. When the grapes are ideally ripe, the grape-pickers teams harvest all the domain's plots for ten days. The grapes are quickly carried to the winery hall in small boxes. The bunches are laid down afterwards on a conveyor belt and are selected bunch after bunch in order to keep only the best.
Faiveley is well-known for a long time as a worth keeping wines producer. The fermentation length is an essen...
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