Aux Etelois is a lieu-dit just downslope from grands crus Chapelle- and Griotte-Chambertin. The soils here are very stony.
"I had always assumed the name derived from étoille but, less romantically, it appears to come from the Latin for ‘hut’. Which just does to show that you shouldn’t look up everything. Enticingly spicy on the nose, with poised, cool raspberry aromas and a hint of cedary richness behind. The palate is sappy and supple, the red berry flavours delineated by a hint of undergrowth and a line of dark rocky minerality. Then the merest squeeze of fine tannin on the finish. This hangs together beautifully. Tasted in London in January 2024."
