Lieu-dit · Bray
Les Mouilles
Les Mouilles is a lieu-dit in Bray, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
16.7 ha
delimited
348 m
elevation
10.5 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 | Bray |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 16.7 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 7.17 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 31 |
| Grape variety | aligotéinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 18%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 23 named plots ranked regional in Bray, from high to low:
Position
348 m
elevation
16.7%
steep
WNW
west-northwest
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 348 m 304 to 383 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.14 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 330 m, ± 0.03 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 16.7% 9.5°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | west-northwest 301°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 47% upper slope, on an even plane, 285 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 17%Carixian to Toarcian dark clay 193–175 million years
- 29%Sinemurian limestone with gryphaea 199.5–193 million years
- 48%Triassic to Hettangian, undifferentiated about 235–199 million years
- 6%Greenish Triassic sandstone and dolomite about 252–237 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards fuller, somewhat firmer wines with more body than tension, provided the drainage is right. Because it is a mixture of three formations, this code says little about style in itself. (weak indication)
A catch-all on the map: clayey Triassic, Rhaetian and Hettangian have not been separated here. It comprises variegated clay and marl from a dry coastal plain, above that Rhaetian sandstone from when the sea returned, and finally thin limestone and marl from the first Jurassic sea. In the ground you see mainly clay with sandy layers and a few thin hard beds, roughly 235 to 199 million years old.
For the vine. Clay dominates, so the water buffer is in principle large, although heavy clay can crack in persistent drought and hold water so tightly that the vine can no longer get at it. The downside is a cold, wet start in spring and slow drainage on flat terrain, so that slope and drainage decide everything here. The lime content varies widely within the same unit, from virtually lime-free clay to marl with active lime, so the chlorosis risk differs from plot to plot.
Among other places at the foot of the slope in the Côte Chalonnaise around Buxy and Montagny, and in the valleys of the Mâconnais where the Jurassic limestone ends against the old massif.
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: tA-l1, l2, l3-4, tG.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
09:02
above the hill
19:32
behind the hill
10.5 h
sun at harvest
0.9 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 09:02 above the hill and disappears at 19:32 behind the hill: 10.5 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 15.9° above the horizon to the east-southeast.
| Irradiation | −3.8% versus flat land 1,011 kWh/m² from April to October, 44% 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 | 99.2% 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, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 07:21 | 21:30 | 14.2 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 09:02 | 19:32 | 10.5 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 10:08 | 16:28 | 6.3 h | 8.6 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), 39% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
47 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a combe
33.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 47 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 33.2 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.69 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.27 m
between the rows
40%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (118°) down the slope (3°), every 1.27 m, varies by plotmeasured over 7.1 of 7.2 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 40% abandoned since: 2.81 ha, planted since: 8.90 haassessed over 15.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 22.7 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 13.5 °C, 1991-2020: 15.1 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,248, 1991-2020: 1,553
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 107, 1991-2020: day 101
series homogenised through 2022
Who owns land here
10.2 ha of 16.7 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE DE BRAY56%
- GROUPEMENT FONCIER AGRICOLE DUVERNE GFA DUVERNE4%
- private individuals or unknown39%
- 9.45 ha COMMUNE DE BRAY COM · public
- 0.71 ha GROUPEMENT FONCIER AGRICOLE DUVERNE GFA DUVERNE GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 6.58 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
- Monterin Regional · 250 m
- Les Poirats Regional · 300 m
- Les Essards Raverots Regional · 350 m
- En Boeuf Regional · 500 m
- Au Chevreuil Regional · 500 m
- Grandes Terres des Bruyères Regional · 500 m
- La Pendee Regional · 500 m
- La Combe Regional · 550 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.