The wine festival at Beaune.

Beaujolais nouveau is lifted the ban on drinking in the third Thursday of November. On the third Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the wine festival is held at Beaune. It is called” Les Trois Glorieuses” in French.


In the former of 15th century, so, people in Beaune are very needy, there are a lot of patients and the poor. The secretary of the treasury of Burgundy, Nichola Rolland and his wife’s hearts ached for the fact. So, they built hospital by their money in 1443. However, most of people couldn’t pay money for treat, and the number of people’s death was not reduced.


Then, Nichola Rolland contributed the hospital to his own wine field. He had an idea that he sells wine is made in there, and allots the profit of the wine for the poor to cure free. So, Many people was redeemed for this charity. The wine fields which thehospitals was increased every year, because wine producers in Burgundy who were stired the spirit of charity contributed their wine fields to hospitals,too. As a result, hospitals owned wine fields in all over the Burgundy area.


After that, the annual auction was held since 1853, and some wine is auctioned off in the public place.