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BEAUNE
In the line of famous vineyards which occupy what the Burgundians
call 'the kidney' of the slopes above Beaune, a large proportion belongs
to the city's negociants: Drouhin, Jadot, Bouchard Pere et Fils, Chanson,
Patriarche among them. The late Maurice Drouhin was the most recent of the
centuries-old list of donors to the Hospices de Beaune. His firm's part
of the Clos des Mouches is now famous; it makes a rare white Beaune there
as well as a superb red one. A part of Greves, belonging to Bouchard Pere
et Fils, is known as the Vigne de l'Enfant Jesus, and makes another marvelous
wine. No Beaune is a Grand Cru; partly, it is said, because of the sustained
high standard of so much land there. Beaune is gentle wine, lasting well
but not demanding to be kept ten years or more like a Romanee or a Chambertin.
