Hospices Archives and First Wine Sale

Mémoires d’Archives invites heritage professionals to unpack the origins of the Hospices de Beaune wine sale through hospital records. Plans, registers, photographs and correspondence connect medical history with the rise of a defining Burgundy wine ritual. The session gives the famous auction an archival backbone, from care institutions to cellar history. The strongest part is the way the documents slow down a famous public ritual. Before the auction becomes spectacle, the archives bring attention back to administration, care, donors, cellars and the long institutional memory behind the Hospices name.