Carved in stone above the doorway at Château de Savigny, and elsewhere in the little French town of Savigny-lès-Beaune, is the motto “Les vins de Savigny sont nourrissants, théologiques et morbifuges.” Nourishing seems like a comparatively safe and mundane claim, but I’m not sure what it means for a wine to be theological. As for that last adjective, “morbifuges,” Burgundy expert Jasper Morris suggests “it means either disease-chasing or perhaps death-defying.” Whatever it means, it’s a pretty grand claim for a wine that hasn’t had much hype in the years since that inscription was chiseled in the 17th century. Savigny-lès-Beaune is one of the less-celebrated appellations of Burgundy, in part because the village is off the beaten path, located several kilometers from Route 74, the north-south artery of the Côte d’Or.