The 163rd Hospices de Beaune charity wine auction, which was held over the weekend, raised a whopping aggregate total of €25.1million ($27.4million), the second highest total ever achieved for the annual auction.
Filippo Bartolotta reports on this year's Barolo en primeur, the largest charity event in the Italian wine calendar, on some of the most important lots to come from the "complicated" 2022 vintage.
The 163rd Hospices de Beaune wine sale, which will take place on 19 November, will see 753 barrels from the 2023 harvest sold, with profits going towards modernising the winery and major structural work to some of its more modern hospital buildings.