BEAUNE, France (Reuters) - Celebrities, business people and the wealthy bid for casks of fine wine in the world's biggest annual charity auction at the Hospices de Beaune this weekend in an annual ...

The Hospices de Beaune was founded in 1443 by Burgundy Chancellor Nicolas Rolin and his wife Guigone de Salins as a hospital for the region's poor and needy. But this building is far from austere.

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Beaune is a small and attractive city within Burgundy, although the region's heart pulses among its outlying vines. This French city (which is pronounced somewhere between 'bone' and 'bun') is gateway ...

Véronique Drouhin, winemaker at the legendary Domaine Joseph Drouhin, shares her go-to restaurants and where you should taste wines now near her hometown ...

There is now a modern hospital in Beaune. The original hospital was financed by charitable contributions from wealthy Burgundians and over the centuries landowners have transferred vineyards to the ...