The 65th edition of the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges auction will be held on Sunday, March 8 at 3 p.m. at the Château du Clos de Vougeot. This emblematic sale is organized for the 2nd consecutive year by iDealwine, the first French wine auction house and world leader in online wine auctions. This 65th edition marks a turning point for the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges Sale...
A historical heritage and a renewed identity for the hospital
The historic building of the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges, sold in November 2025, has been sold to a real estate group specialising in the rehabilitation of heritage buildings. It will soon be transformed into a luxury residence. This decision allows the hospital to fully refocus on its care activity, as the constraints linked to a historic building are difficult to reconcile with the exercise of a modern hospital activity.
Another major novelty this year: the 2025 vintage will be the first to feature a new label. More sober, with a classic typography and a white background, it features the historic building of the Nuits-Saint-Georges hospital, framed by the city's coats of arms. A clear way of putting the hospital back at the heart of this historic sale. This new visual is part of the continuity and legacy of this emblematic sale, offering collectors and wine lovers a recognizable and timeless visual identity.
Guillaume Koch, Director of the Hospices Civils de Beaune, is pleased with these changes, the investments of which allow the realization of new projects: "The sale of the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges is much more than a wine event: it is an essential lever to support the hospital's mission. The choices made today strengthen our ability to invest in the service of patients while affirming an identity that is faithful to the history of our establishment. »
Old label on the left, new label on the right
A vintage in 5 that lives up to its reputation
The 65th edition of the sale will be dedicated to wines from the 2025 vintage, structured, elegant and atypical, in that it combines the characteristics of a hot year with the markers of a cool vintage. Burgundy benefited from favourable summer conditions from May to September. Regular rains have preserved the moisture of the soil and avoided any water stress from the vines until the harvest. Yields are lower than expected, with an average of 21 hectolitres per hectare, but are nevertheless more generous than those of the extremely rare 2024 vintage, which showed only 9.5 hl/ha.
Significant in many respects, the 2025 vintage will be the last for Jean-Marc Moron.
A charity piece at the service of animal mediation
Since the 2021 vintage (with the exception of 2024), the charity piece has been embodied by a Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru. A true ode to the great Pinot Noirs of the appellation, this Premier Cru represents the quintessence of the know-how of the Domaine des Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges. For this edition, the piece is offered by subscription, without bidding, for the benefit of the Ani'nomad association.
Founded in 2010, this association, based in the Côte-d'Or, is a pioneer in the field of animal mediation. The funds collected during the Sale will finance the development of the association's premises and outdoor spaces, located in Plombières-lès-Dijon. Designed as a place of welcome, sharing and inclusion, this site will offer fun and adapted spaces, allowing in particular the reception of people with reduced mobility.
Find out more and register for the 65th sale of the Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges: https://www.idealwine.com/fr/hospices-de-nuits
The Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges is one of the public health establishments which, along with the sites of Beaune, Arnay-le-duc and Seurre, make up the Hospices Civils de Beaune. They work, with their paramedical training institute, for a local and quality offer with 988 beds and places in a territory of more than 110,000 inhabitants.
The Hospices de Nuits-Saint-Georges estate covers an area of 12.4 hectares, spread over the communes of Nuits-St-Georges, Premeaux-Prissey, Vosne-Romanée and Gevrey-Chambertin. It is mainly made up of crus from the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation, in particular eight plots of village appellations and nine premier crus, thus covering a large part of the hillsides and terroirs of the latter.
This vineyard produces 19 cuvées, including a monopoly appellation Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er cru "Les Didiers". To complete this panel of red Nuits-Saint-Georges, the estate also produces a cuvée from Gevrey-Chambertin Village.
Finally, a few ares planted in the hillside make it possible to offer for sale a white Nuits-Saint-Georges 1er Cru, a wine confidential in terms of the quantity produced. Made from the Chardonnay grape variety, it exudes its floral and fruity aromas, and offers more roundness than minerality on the palate.
