Cuvee Baudot
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared sea scallops, roasted veal chops with chanterelles, creamy mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
The Meursault-Genevrières Premier Cru 'Cuvée Baudot' is one of the most illustrious white wines offered at the historic Hospices de Beaune charity auction. This exceptional cuvée is sourced from the highly prized Genevrières climat, where the vines dig deep into fractured limestone and active chalk soils, yielding a wine of remarkable tension, mineral drive, and aromatic complexity. The cuvée's name honors the Baudot family, whose generous bequest of prime vineyard parcels to the Hospices in the mid-20th century cemented their legacy in Burgundian history. Traditionally, this white Burgundy displays a brilliant golden hue, offering a sophisticated bouquet of citrus blossom, hazelnut, crushed stones, and a signature hint of spice. After the annual November auction, the young wine is entrusted to elite local négociants-éleveurs, who guide its maturation in French oak casks to achieve a perfect harmony of opulent texture and vibrant, saline acidity.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, Chancellor to the Duke of Burgundy, and Guigone de Salins as the charitable Hôtel-Dieu hospital, the Domaine des Hospices de Beaune represents one of the most storied institutions in viticultural history. Comprising approximately 60 hectares amassed through centuries of philanthropic bequests, the domaine spans over a hundred individual parcels across the Côte de Beaune and Côte de Nuits, supplemented by small outposts in the Mâconnais and Chablis. Over 85% of its vineyards claim Premier or Grand Cru status, rooted predominantly in classic Jurassic limestone and marl soils. Chief winemaker Ludivine Griveau, the first female régisseur in the estate's history, completed the transition to full organic certification with the 2024 vintage. Vinified in Beaune before being offered as barrel lots during the historic annual November auction, benchmark red cuvées such as Nicolas Rolin and Guigone de Salins, alongside benchmark white expressions like François de Salins, display pure fruit expression, terroir transparency, and refined structural precision.
🍇 Grapes
Chardonnay