Lieu-dit · Auxey-Duresses
La Crolarde
La Crolarde is a lieu-dit in Auxey-Duresses, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
3.27 ha
delimited
296 m
elevation
9.3 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Auxey-Duresses |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 3.27 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.83 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 15 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir, gamay also permitted: chardonnay, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 16 named plots ranked regional in Auxey-Duresses, from high to low:
Position
296 m
elevation
14.2%
steep
ENE
east-northeast
mid-slope
concave fold
| Elevation | 296 m 280 to 309 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.01 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 298 m, ± 0.01 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 14.2% 8.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-northeast 71°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 21% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 831 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 15%Colluvium, mixed slope deposit about 0.1–0 million years
- 37%Calcaire de Tonnerre, Upper Oxfordian to Lower Kimmeridgian about 157–152 million years
- 48%Oxfordian marl with iron oolites 159.5–157 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Marl slopes tend towards wine with more body and breadth than the thin limestone beds above, and for chardonnay this substrate is often associated with power and ageing potential. That link runs through water regime and soil depth, not directly through the rock type.
Deposited in a calm, slightly deeper sea than the hard platform limestones beneath, with so little sediment supply that iron-rich oolite grains and ammonites could accumulate. In between lie harder beds full of sea lily fragments, the Calcaire à Balanocrinus. In the soil it is grey-blue, crumbly marl that turns sticky when wet, with limestone slabs and rusty brown grains in between; Middle Oxfordian, roughly 159.5 to 157 million years old.
For the vine. Marl retains water, so plots on this substrate generally run into drought stress later in dry vintages than the thin soils on the hard limestone beds; how much later depends on soil depth and position on the slope. The flip side is slowness, because wet marl warms slowly in spring and is heavy to work, so the formation only works well on sufficient slope. The active lime content is generally substantial, so the choice of rootstock against chlorosis really matters here.
Forms broad bands on the upper slopes of the Côte de Beaune: it is the substrate of Corton-Charlemagne and of the upper slopes above Pommard and Volnay, and of much of the Hautes-Côtes.
BRGM geological map at 1:50,000. It tells vineyards apart, not plots within a vineyard. The link between rock and taste is indirect: soil depth, water and warmth do the work, and slope, vine age and the cellar do the rest. Units on that map: j5a, j6a, C.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:37
above the hill
17:53
behind the hill
9.3 h
sun at harvest
2.2 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:37 above the hill and disappears at 17:53 behind the hill: 9.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 19.9° above the horizon to the west. The relief costs 1.8% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | −3.8% versus flat land 1,002 kWh/m² from April to October, 43% of it diffuseunder the average cloudiness of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC); direct, diffuse and reflected light togetherign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Open sky | 95.7% of the sky the slope itself sees; the surrounding relief blocks the restign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) |
Three reference days and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:39 | 19:33 | 12.9 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 08:37 | 17:53 | 9.3 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:57 | 14:44 | 4.8 h | 8.5 h |
Computed from the IGN elevation model at 5 m: horizon in 36 directions up to six kilometres, sun position per minute, angle of incidence on the mean slope. Clear sky, with the tree canopy from the IGN forest inventory as a raised horizon (15 m closed forest, 5 m heath, trees within 60 m ignored), 31% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
The irradiation loss does include clouds: the average of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC), not any particular year.
Air and cold
20 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a main drain
315.6 ha flows past
| Cold air | 20 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 315.6 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 18.88 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
across the slope
0.99 m
between the rows
85%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (7°) across the slope (65°), every 0.99 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.8 of 0.8 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 85% abandoned since: 0.53 haassessed over 2.2 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 5.6 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.1 °C, 1991-2020: 15.2 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,528, 1991-2020: 1,726
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 115, 1991-2020: day 108
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
Who owns land here
0.08 ha of 3.27 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE D'AUXEY DURESSES2%
- private individuals or unknown98%
- 0.08 ha COMMUNE D'AUXEY DURESSES COM · public
Private individuals or unknown: 3.19 ha.
Share of the delimited hectares. Only legal entities are public in France; everything else stays unnamed. From the public register of legal entities (DGFiP), as of 1 January 2025. The owner is not always the one who works the vineyard: tenancy is common.
Nearby lieux-dits
- Les Maraux Regional · 300 m
- Les Fontaines de Moule Regional · 350 m
- La Côte Regional · 500 m
- Sous le Châtelet Regional · 750 m
- Sous le Bois Regional · 900 m
- Les Cloux Village · 1.0 km
- Les Crais Village · 1.0 km
- Les Closeaux Village · 1.1 km
In the same village, measured between label points. That does not say which ones border each other; the map shows that.
Where each figure comes from
- Classification
- The INAO delimitation per denomination, cut against the cadastral parcel. Only the INAO's own plans are legally binding; this map is informational.
- Area
- Computed on the sphere from longitude and latitude (turf.area), not in Lambert-93. For an appellation this is the union of the INAO polygons across commune boundaries, measured on the unclosed geometry; the fifteen metres used to close the outline for the map are not counted. For a climat it is the union of the cadastral lieu-dit polygons with that name.
- Planted
- Parcel area times vineyard cover, where cover comes from the IGN vegetation layer supplemented by the agricultural declaration. Checked against the customs harvest declarations: median deviation 5.1 per cent over a hundred appellations.
- Elevation
- Mean of the elevation-model cells whose centre falls inside the polygon, on a 5 m grid.
- Slope
- Per-cell slope from the elevation model using Horn's method, then averaged over the cells in the polygon.
- Aspect
- Vector mean of the per-cell aspect. A plain average would turn north-east and north-west into south.
- Sun at harvest
- Hours of direct sun on 20 September under a clear sky, with the horizon in 36 directions out to six kilometres and the height of woods and buildings on top of it. Canopy height is measured where LiDAR HD covers the area and estimated from BD Forêt where it does not; the panel states which of the two was used.
- Grape variety by appellation
- Per appellation and colour the permitted varieties from the approved cahier des charges; per appellation and tier the declared hectares of white and red from the customs harvest declaration (product codes). One colour permitted: the main variety of that colour. Two colours: from 85 percent of the hectares that colour applies, in between it is called mixed. Champagne: the dominant variety from the planted hectares per variety per commune from FranceAgriMer. Per polygon the dominant variety of its parts by area. Derived, not measured: the variety per plot exists only in the customs vineyard register, which is not public. In a two-colour appellation a single plot may carry the other variety. Customs withhold small appellations (statistical secrecy), in which case the split is missing.
- Bedrock
- The geological unit covering the largest share of the polygon, from the 1:50,000 geological map. At 1:50,000 the map separates one climat from another, but not what varies inside a climat.
- Organic
- Share of the area certified organic or in conversion, from the CartoBio plot register.