All vine ages as of 2005...

Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru
Cuvée Boillot

Average Vine Age (2 active parcels): 32 years

Auxey-Duresses Les Duresses (0.67ha)
The cuvée named after Antionette Boillot who donated her domaine to the Hospices in 1898, consisting of vines in Auxey, Meursault and Volnay

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Brunet

Average Vine Age (8 parcels): 36 years

Beaune Les Bas des Teurons (0.48ha)
Beaune Les Bressandes (0.52ha)
Beaune Les Cent-Vignes (0.47ha)

Donations have been made by 5 different members of the Brunet family, hence, this cuvée is named in their honour.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Clos des Avaux

Average Vine Age (7 active parcels): 36 years

Beaune Les Avaux (1.63ha)
Vines acquired by the Hospice de la Charité before the revolution.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Cyrot-Chaudron

Average Vine Age (7 active parcels): 40 years

Beaune Les Montrevenots (0.78ha)
A gift in 1979 of vines in Beaune and Pommard by the family Cyrot-Chaudron saw this cuvée named in their honour.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Maurice Drouhin

Average Vine Age (12 active parcels): 27 years

Beaune Les Avaux (1.08ha)
Beaune Les Boucherottes (0.68ha)
Beaune Les Champs-Pimont (0.66ha)
Beaune Les Grèves (0.26ha)

Between 1941 and 1955 Maurice Drouhin was head of the Administrative Commission of the Hospices de Beaune. After leaving he donated vines in Beaune. This cuvée is named in his honour and some barrels are always bought by Maison Joseph Drouhin - first sold in 1960.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Dames-Hospitalières

Average Vine Age (14 parcels): 34 years

Beaune La Mignotte (1.13ha)
Beaune Les Bressandes (1.07ha)
Beaune Les Teurons (0.55ha)

Named after the 'Dames' who provided more than 500 years service to the sick of Beaune.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Floquet

Average Vine Age (all parcels):

Beaune 1er Cru (4.0ha)
The most recent donation to the Hospices - 1997.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Pierre Floquet

Average Vine Age (all parcels):

Beaune Les Grèves (0.75ha)
Also part of the 1997 legacy. Leased out until 2003, the vines are of indeterminate age.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Hughes et Louis Bétault

Average Vine Age (9 active parcels): 34 years

Beaune Les Grèves (0.65ha)
Beaune La Mignotte (0.35ha)
Beaune Les Aigrots (0.43ha)
Beaune Clos des Mouches (0.25ha)

In the early 1600's Hughes Betault was a secretary to the King and during his life made several donation to the Hospices

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Nicolas Rolin

Average Vine Age (12 active parcels): 38 years

Beaune Les Cent Vignes (1.35ha)
Beaune Les Grèves (0.36ha)
Beaune Les Teurons (0.47ha)
Beaune Les En Genêt (0.18ha)
Beaune Les Bressandes (0.16ha)

This cuvée was assembled in 1963 from donations by Madame Maurice Pallegoix and named after the founder of the Hospices.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Rousseau-Deslandes

Average Vine Age (8 parcels): 38 years

Beaune Les Cent-Vignes (1.06ha)
Beaune Les Montrevenots (0.71ha)
Beaune La Mignotte (0.42ha)

Named after the founders of the Hospices de la Charité de Beaune, which after 3 centuries was joined together with the Hospices de Beaune.

Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Guigone de Salins

Average Vine Age (10 parcels): 28 years

Beaune Les Bressandes (1.2ha)
Beaune Les Seurey (0.83ha)
Beaune Les Champs-Pimont (0.62ha)

A cuvée named after the wife of Nicolas Rolin, who, after the death of her husband, dedicated herslf to the work of the Hospices.

Corton Grand Cru
Cuvée Baronne du Baÿ

Average Vine Age (20 parcels): 24 years

Corton Clos du Roi (0.84ha)
Baroness du Baÿ was a daughter of Docteur Peste. This cuvée since 2007.

Corton Grand Cru
Cuvée Charlotte Dumay

Average Vine Age (20 parcels): 24 years

Corton Les Renardes (1.69ha)
Corton Les Bressandes (0.97ha)
Named to remember Charlotte Dumay, who left 100 ouvrées of vines in Aloxe to the Hospices in 1584.

Corton Grand Cru
Cuvée Docteur Peste

Average Vine Age (13 parcels): 28 years

Corton Les Bressandes (0.95ha)
Corton Les Chaumes et Voirosses (1.14ha)
Corton Clos du Roi (0.45ha)
Corton Les Grèves (0.12ha)

Madame Baronne du Bay wishing to remember the work of her father (the eponymous Dr Peste) who worked for a short time as a Doctor at the Hospices, donated a domaine based in Aloxe. This land together with a donation by Marcel Fournier to remember his uncle and aunt ((Monsieur et Madame Thevenot-Bussiere) was assembled as a cuvée for the first time in 1965.

Monthélie 1er Cru
Cuvée Jacques Lebelin

Average Vine Age (4 active parcels): 47 years

Monthélie 1er Cru Les Duresses (0.89ha)
Named after a donation by Jacques Lebelin at the start of the 1900's though prior to 1937 there were two separate cuvées; J.Lebelin and Henri Gélicot.

Pernand-Vergelesses 1er Cru
Cuvée Rammeau-Lamarosse

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 29 years

Pernand-Vergelesses Les Basses-Vergelesses (0.70ha)
The last-surviving member of this old burgundian family left both his house and vines to the Hopsices at the end of his life - sold for the first time in 1966.

Pommard
Cuvée Billardet

Average Vine Age (10 parcels): 38 years

Pommard Les Arvelets (0.47ha)
Pommard Les Noizons (0.83ha)
Pommard Les Cras (0.04ha)

Commemorating donations by the daughters and grand-daughters of the surgeons of the Hospices de Beaune

Pommard
Cuvée Suzanne Chaudron

Average Vine Age (12 active parcels): 40 years

Pommard En Poisot (0.07ha)
Pommard La Chanière (0.41ha)
Pommard La Croix Planet (0.38ha)
Pommard Les Noizons (0.32ha)
Pommard Les Petits Noizons (0.56ha)
Pommard Rue au Port (0.04ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Petits Epenots (0.1ha)

A gift in 1979 of vines in Beaune and Pommard by the family Cyrot-Chaudron saw this cuvée named in their honour - as the similarly named Beaune cuvée.

Pommard
Cuvée Raymond Cyrot

Average Vine Age (11 parcels): 41 years

Pommard La Vache(0.14ha)
Pommard Les Riottes (0.29ha)
Pommard Les Vaumurens Bas (0.18ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Bertins (0.25ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Charmots (0.48ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens Bas (0.09ha)

A gift in 1979 of vines in Beaune and Pommard by the family Cyrot-Chaudron saw this cuvée named in their honour - as the similarly named Beaune and Pommard cuvées above.

Pommard
Cuvée Dames de la Charité

Average Vine Age (11 parcels): 34 years

Pommard La Refène (0.31ha)
Pommard Les Combes Dessous (0.16ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Petits-Epenots (0.43ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens Bas (0.45ha)
Pommard 1er Cru Les Rugiens Hauts (0.19ha)

Named after the nuns of the Hospices de Charité - many of whom left their belongings to the organisation

Pommard-Epenots
Cuvée Dom Goblet

Average Vine Age (11 parcels): 34 years

Pommard 1er Cru Les Petits-Epenots (0.71ha)
Vines older than 50 years.

Santenay
Cuvée Christine Friedberg

Average Vine Age (5 parcels): 28 years

Santenay Les Hâtes (0.60ha)
A donation in 2010 by William Friedberg in memory of his wife.

Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Forneret

Average Vine Age (8 active parcels): 30 years

Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Vergelesses (0.87ha)
Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Gravains (0.14ha)

Named after an old Beaune family who bequeathed land in Savigny and Pernand to the Hospices.

Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Fouquerand

Average Vine Age (7 active parcels): 28 years

Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Basses-Vergelesses (1.0ha)
Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Talmettes (0.65ha)
Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Gravains (0.28ha)
Savigny-lès-Beaune Aux Serpentières (0.15ha)

A cuvée named after Denis Antoine Fouquerand who made a donation in 1944 -12 years after his wife donated to the Hospices de Charité

Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru
Cuvée Arthur Girard

Average Vine Age (7 active parcels): 46 years

Savigny-lès-Beaune Les Peuillets (1.0ha)
In honour of Arthur Girard who left part of his property to the Hospices in 1936. Prior to 1936, there were two cuvées; Du Bay Peste and Cyrot, from 1937 to 1943 this was a single cuvée - Du Bay Peste et Cyrot. To avoid confusion with the Dr Peste cuvée this was renamed after Arthur Girard.

Volnay 1er Cru
Cuvée Blondeau

Average Vine Age (8 active parcels): 30 years

Volnay Les Champans (0.64ha)
Volnay Les Taille-Pieds (0.56ha)
Volnay Le Ronceret (0.36ha)
Volnay Les Mitans (0.25ha)

A large donation from Francois Blondeau who ceded his estate in Monthélie, Pommard, Beaune, Blgny and Volnay to the Hospice de la Charité

Volnay 1er Cru
Cuvée Général Muteau

Average Vine Age (10 parcels): 26 years

Volnay Le Village (0.78ha)
Volnay Le Carelle-sous-la-Chapelle (0.32ha)
Volnay Les Caillerets-Dessus (0.18ha)
Volnay Le Fremiet (0.23ha)
Volnay Les Taille-Pieds (0.19ha)

To remember the Général who donated to the Hospices, his large estate based on Laborde au Château

Volnay 1er Santenots
Cuvée Jehan de Massol

Average Vine Age (6 parcels): 40 years

Volnay Les Santenots du Dessous (0.93ha)
Volnay Les Santenots du Millieu (0.35ha)
Volnay Les Plures (Santenots 0.26ha)

Including estates in Meursault, Demigny, and Travoisy, Jehan who was a secretary to the King, left everything in his will to the Hôtel-Dieu.

Volnay 1er Santenots
Cuvée Gauvain

Average Vine Age (5 parcels): 28 years

Volnay Les Plures (Santenots 0.72ha)
Volnay Les Santenots du Millieu (0.68ha)
In 1804 Bernard Gauvain left all he owned to the Hospices de Charité. Some years later his widow also donated her house in Beaune and land in Chivres and Laborde-au-Bureau.

Clos de la Roche Grand Cru
Cuvée Cyrot Chaudron et Georges Kritter

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 24 years

Clos de la Roche, Les Froichots (0.22ha)
Split into two cuvées: In 1991 Madame Georges Kritter left money to the Hospices to buy this land - the cuvée is usually bought by Maison Kritter in Beaune. Madame Cyrot-Chaudron facilitated the further expansion of this new vineyard by bequeathing additional monies in the same year.

Mazis-Chambertin Grand Cru
Cuvée Madelaine Collignon

Average Vine Age (10 active parcels): 45 years

Mazis-Chambertin, Mazis Hautes (1.52ha)
In memory of a donation made from Monsieur and Madame Marcel Thomas-Collignon.

Bâtard-Montrachet Grand Cru
Cuvée Dames de Flandres

Average Vine Age (1 parcel): 31 years

Bâtard-Montrachet (0.29ha)
A parcel of vines purchased by the Hospices in 1989 and given the name of the nurses' organisiation of the Hôtel-Dieu

Corton Blanc Grand Cru
Cuvée Paul Chanson

Average Vine Age (one parcel): 64 years

Corton Blanc Les Vergennes (0.28ha)
An interesting plot of mainly Pinot Blanc vines donated by Paul Chanson in 1974

Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
Cuvée Françoise de Salins

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 40 years

Le Charlemagne (0.48ha)
One of the best.known cuvées of the Hospices and named after François de Salins who, in 1745, bequeathed his domaine with vines in Aloxe and Savigny.

Corton-Charlemagne Grand Cru
Cuvée du Roi Soliel

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 40 years

Corton Renardes (0.34ha)
Subtitles Anciennement Cuvée Charlotte Dumay. First offered in 2004 after the pinot was replaced with chardonnay in 1997.

Meursault 1er Cru
Cuvée Baudot

Average Vine Age (5 parcels): 45 years

Meursault Les Genevrières-Dessous (0.77ha)
Meursault Les Genevrières-Dessus (0.71ha)
Baudot was an antique dealer who left the proceeds of his antique collection to the Hospices de Charité in 1880.

Meursault 1er Cru
Cuvée Philippe le Bon

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 22 years

Meursault Les Genevrières-Dessous (0.44ha)
The Duke of Burgundy to whom Nicolas Rolin was responsible. Until 1955 this was part of the cuvée Jehan Humblot which included 'villages' level vines so could not e called premier cru. Following the separation, Cuvée Jehan Humblot remained a 'villages' wine, but cuvée Philippe Le Bon became Meursault Genevrières.

Meursault Charmes 1er Cru
Cuvée De Bahèzre de Lanlay

Average Vine Age (two parcels): 59 years

Meursault Les Charmes-Dessus (0.48ha)
Meursault Les Charmes-Dessous (0.41ha)
Named after a major benefactor to the Hospices. The former inspector for the telegraphs, left everything to the Hospices de Beaune. Such was his generosity that it was possible to build the first surgery of the Hospices, plus a building for old people.

Meursault 1er Cru
Cuvée Albert Grivault

Average Vine Age (3 parcels): 27 years

Meursault Les Charmes-Dessus (0.55ha)
Named after the Grivaults, who donated their vineyard in 1904.

Meursault
Cuvée Jehan Humblot

Average Vine Age: 42 years

Meursault 1er Cru Les Poruzots (0.56ha)
In memory of the Beaune lawyer who donated his estate at Laborde-au-Bureau to the Hôtel-Dieu in 1600.

Meursault 1er Cru
Cuvée Loppin

Average Vine Age (4 active parcels): 49 years

Meursault Les Criots (0.2ha)
Meursault Les Cras (0.18ha)
In memory of the Loppin family, who over several generation left money and land to both the Hôtel-Dieu and the Hospices de Charité.

Meursault
Cuvée Goureau

Average Vine Age (4 active parcels): 37 years

Meursault Les Peuts-Vignes (0.21ha)
Meursault 1er Cru Les Poruzots (0.27ha)
Meursault Les Grands-Charrons (0.08ha)
Multiple donations by Mademoiselle Goureau of estates located in Masse, Corcelles, Mimande, Chaudenay, Ebaty, and Demigny to the Hospice de la Charité are commemorated with this cuvée.

Pouilly-Fuissé
Cuvée Françoise Poisard

Average Vine Age (6 parcels): Indeterminate

Pouilly-Fuissé Les Chevrières (0.30ha)
Pouilly-Fuissé Les Plessys (0.58ha)
Pouilly-Fuissé Les Robées (0.53ha)
Françoise Poisard left in her will an estate comprising two houses, land and vines including 4 hectares of Pouilly Fuissé to the Hospices in 1994.

Saint-Romain
Cuvée Joseph Menault

Average Vine Age: Planted 1996-1997

Saint-Romain Le Village Haut (0.43ha)
Saint-Romain Sous la Velle (0.33ha)
Donated by Joseph Menault in 1992.