Excuse me for being so brain-dead, but I just realized I’ve neglected to report that we purchased another barrel of wine this year at the Hospices de Beaune auction back in November. So much has been flying in and out of my brain that I completely forgot to mention it. Anyway, we were successful in getting a barrel of the 2006 Beaune 1er Cru Cuvée Maurice Drouhin – the same cuvée we purchased at last year’s auction, but of course this is the 2006 version. Prices were up just a bit this year for the reds, but the whites were stratospherically high (mostly due to limited availability) – so we passed on the whites this time around (they simply would have been way too expensive in relation to the quality, in my opinion… )

Watch for a futures offering on this wine later in the winter. Most of the 2005 Hospices wines that we purchased have already been sold as futures, but I think we held on to a few cases of each that we can sell upon arrival next spring…

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