Savigny-lès-Beaune Clos des Godeaux 2022

Etymology

At Savigny-lès-Beaune, three perennial water sources would spring out of a limestone rock situated on this lieu-dit that the locals call “Les Godiaux”. In 1858, the water was canalised enabling it to supply the fountain situated on the church square at Aloxe-Corton. Indeed, this village had had important water supply problems until the 1950s. On the front page of the Plan of the first canalisation, this pipe is called “l’égout d’eau” (the water sewer). Couldn’t this also be the meaning of the lieu-dit name? The limestone rock may have been used as a sewer allowing the underground waters to flow. The word Egout – from Latin GUTTA “drop of a liquid” – initially means “liquid that drips, rain waters flowing”. In the case here it signifies the flowing of springs.
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