Lieu-dit · Beaune
Lès Grèves
Lès Grèves is a lieu-dit in Beaune, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Les Grèves.
31.3 ha
delimited
249 m
elevation
10.9 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cruinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Les Grèves |
| Village | Beaune |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 31.3 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 30.0 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 86 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir 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 | 65%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 35 named plots ranked premier cru in Beaune, from high to low:
Position
249 m
elevation
13.4%
steep
ESE
east-southeast
foot
even slope
| Elevation | 249 m 223 to 305 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.09 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 262 m, ± 0.03 °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 | 13.4% 7.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 103°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 19% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 463 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 23%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
- 31%Argovien marl and marly limestone 159.5–157.5 million years
- 8%Oxfordian marl and clayey limestone 162–155 million years
- 38%Dalle nacrée, Bathonian to Callovian about 166.5–163 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards fragrant, somewhat leaner wine with bright acidity and fine tannin. The thin soil makes the result strongly vintage-dependent, more than the rock type itself explains.
A hard, cross-bedded shell-debris limestone that gleams like mother-of-pearl, hence the name dalle nacrée. It formed in agitated, shallow water with sandbanks of shell and bryozoan debris, locally with oolites and small coral lumps, at the end of the Bathonian and the start of the Callovian. The sequence is some twenty metres thick and breaks into slabs with pearly, ochre to rusty fracture surfaces.
For the vine. Hard, well-fissured limestone with a thin, stony soil on top, excellently drained, quick to warm and with little water reserve. The slabs are well fissured, so roots can get deeper than the thin profile suggests; whether that yields enough water in a dry summer depends mainly on the thickness of the weathered cover above. The active lime content is high, so chlorosis calls for attention.
Forms the hard bed high on the slope and on the plateau edge of the Côte; in the south of the Côte de Beaune, around Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, the Callovian reaches into the vineyard.
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: j4a, j5b, GP, j5.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:26
above the flat horizon
18:22
behind the hill
10.9 h
sun at harvest
0.6 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 07:26 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:22 behind the hill: 10.9 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.9° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | +0.1% versus flat land 1,051 kWh/m² from April to October, 42% 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 | 99.6% 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 | 05:47 | 19:59 | 14.2 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:26 | 18:22 | 10.9 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 15:58 | 7.5 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), 36% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
23 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a combe
18.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 23 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 18.8 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.52 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.05 m
between the rows
96%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (105°) down the slope (2°), every 1.05 m, varies by plotmeasured over 19.9 of 30.0 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 96% abandoned since: 0.21 ha, planted since: 0.57 haassessed over 20.8 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 14.9 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
The name
- greve
- gravelly, pebbly ground; the same word as a river's gravel bank. Soil and stone · Gérard Taverdet, Noms de lieux de Bourgogne (2007)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
27.4 ha of 31.3 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- MAISON BOUCHARD PERE ET FILS21%
- HOSPICES CIVILS DE BEAUNE8%
- BEAUNOISE FINANCEMENT ET PARTICIPATION7%
- ISAVIGNE5%
- C P E F4%
- 29 other legal entities42%
- private individuals or unknown13%
- 6.58 ha MAISON BOUCHARD PERE ET FILS SAS · wine business · organic
- 2.56 ha HOSPICES CIVILS DE BEAUNE HOSP · public · organic
- 2.05 ha BEAUNOISE FINANCEMENT ET PARTICIPATION SAS · other
- 1.31 ha C P E F SAS · other · organic
- 1.28 ha GOUD DE BEAUPUIS GFA · land company
- 1.17 ha ISAVIGNE GFA · land company
- 1.04 ha GFA LA SARRAZINE GFA · land company
- 0.92 ha DOMAINE DE MONTILLE SAS · wine business · organic
- 0.82 ha GFA DU CHARMEL GFA · land company
- 0.77 ha T P A SAS · other · organic
- 0.74 ha GFV DOMAINE CHANTAL ROPITEAU AUPM · wine business
- 0.71 ha COMMUNE DE ALLEREY SUR SAONE COM · public
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- 0.68 ha DOMAINE BERTHELEMOT BRIGITTE - SCE SCEA · wine business · organic
- 0.62 ha GFV LARGEOT GFA · land company
- 0.59 ha GFA TOLLOT BEAUT ET FILS GFA · land company
- 0.58 ha REMOISSENET VIGNOBLES SCI · land company
- 0.54 ha ISABAIL SC · land company
- 0.44 ha GFA GAY THIRIAT ET FILS GFA · land company
- 0.44 ha DOMAINE BESANCENOT MATHOUILLET GFA · land company
- 0.38 ha DOMAINE DE BRULLY SCEA · wine business
- 0.38 ha GFA DOMAINE DES CLOS GFA · land company
- 0.37 ha HERITIERS MICHEL LAFARGUE GFA · land company
- 0.36 ha DES BEAUMONTS GFA · land company
- 0.33 ha LES PETITS FILS DE PIERRE PONNELLE SAS · other
- 0.29 ha DOMAINE DES CROIX SCEA · wine business
- 0.29 ha GROUPEMENT FONCIER VITICOLE DES GREVES GFA · land company
- 0.24 ha GROUPEMENT FONCIER VITICOLE DU FOULOT GFA · land company
- 0.24 ha LES CHAUMOILLOTS GFA · land company
- 0.20 ha EXPLOITATION DOMAINE VOIRET SC · land company
- 0.14 ha DOMAINE BERTHELEMOT SCEA · wine business
- 0.13 ha MAISON ALBERT MOROT SAS · wine business · organic
- 0.09 ha GFA DOM CORTON GRANCEY SC · land company
- 0.09 ha VIGNOBLE LATOUR SCI · land company
- 0.03 ha COMMUNE DE BEAUNE COM · public
- 0.01 ha CORSICA BURGUNDY SCI · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 3.92 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
- Lès Toussaints Premier Cru · 350 m
- Sur lès Grèves Premier Cru · 400 m
- Lès Mariages Village · 400 m
- Le Bas des Teurons Premier Cru · 450 m
- La Blanchisserie Village · 600 m
- Lès Cents Vignes Premier Cru · 600 m
- Lès Teurons Premier Cru · 650 m
- Lès Bressandes Premier Cru · 700 m
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.