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Lieu-dit · Brochon

Lès Evocelles

Lès Evocelles is a lieu-dit in Brochon, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

10.4 ha

delimited

346 m

elevation

10.6 h

sun at harvest

Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.

In figures

LevelVillageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageBrochon
RegionCôte de Nuits, Burgundy
Delimited10.4 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted9.20 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels127
Grape varietypinot 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)
Organic32%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 19 named plots ranked village in Brochon, from high to low:

sun at harvest 18th
elevation 1st
slope 1st
on the slope 1st

Position

346 m

elevation

18.3%

steep

E

east

mid-slope

even slope

Elevation346 m 318 to 382 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature−0.45 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 287 m, ± 0.07 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope18.3% 10.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast 99°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope38% mid slope, on an even plane, 404 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

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  • 50%Slope scree and landslips Laat-Pleistoceen tot heden, plaatselijk nog actief
  • 11%Bajocian crinoidal limestone (Calcaire à entroques) 171–⁠168 million years
  • 38%Crinoidal limestone, Aalenian to Bajocian about 174–⁠169 million years

Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.

In the glass. On its own, nothing meaningful can be said about the wine from this substrate. It is a mixture, and slope, aspect and soil depth are the factors that really matter. (weak indication)

A collective term and not a formation: loose rock debris on steep slopes, together with zones where whole bodies of ground have slipped. The material is young and consists of whatever outcrops higher up the slope, from limestone flakes and rubble to lumps of marl and clay. Scree formation and slipping are, moreover, still going on, so the unit is locally in motion.

For the vine. Generally stony and well drained, with a depth that can vary greatly within a single plot. Where marl or clay has come down with it, the deposit holds more water and becomes cooler and heavier. Instability and erosion are the practical problem here, so planting, terracing and soil cultivation determine more than the mapping does.

Occurs on the steepest flanks of the Côte and of the combes, where the limestone edge above the vineyard breaks apart.

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: E, j1-2, j2.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:26

above the flat horizon

18:02

behind the hill

10.6 h

sun at harvest

0.7 h

lost to the hill

Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:26 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:02 behind the hill: 10.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 18.5° above the horizon to the west.

Irradiation−0.6% versus flat land 1,034 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 (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026)
Open sky99.5% of the sky the slope itself sees; the surrounding relief blocks the restign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)
Three reference days, the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June05:4619:3613.8 h15.9 h
20 September07:2618:0210.6 h12.3 h
21 December08:2515:287.0 h8.5 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), 46% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

39 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a combe

21.7 ha flows past

Cold air39 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through21.7 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.69 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ESE-WNW

down the slope

1.01 m

between the rows

77%

vineyard in 1950

RowsESE-WNW (102°) down the slope (4°), every 1.01 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 8.4 of 9.2 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195077% abandoned since: 0.03 ha, planted since: 1.76 haassessed over 7.8 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

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station DIJON-LONGVIC, 219 m, 9.0 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.7 °C, 1991-2020: 16.2 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,677, 1991-2020: 1,881

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 100, 1991-2020: day 100

series homogenised through 2022

Who owns land here

6.43 ha of 10.4 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • SOC CIV AGRIC DOMAINE DE LA VOUGERAIE30%
  • JOEL ET MARTINE POTOT8%
  • GFA DU DOMAINE GARNIER5%
  • COMMUNE DE BROCHON4%
  • SCEA DOMAINE LOUIS BOILLOT ET FILS4%
  • 6 other legal entities11%
  • private individuals or unknown38%

Private individuals or unknown: 3.98 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

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.