Lieu-dit · Chaintré
Lès Chevrières
Lès Chevrières is a lieu-dit in Chaintré, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Les Chevrières.
13.8 ha
delimited
253 m
elevation
11.3 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cru 50% Village 42% Regional 8%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Les Chevrières |
| Village | Chaintré |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 13.8 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 11.5 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 53 |
| Grape variety | chardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 24%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 6 named plots ranked premier cru in Chaintré, from high to low:
Position
253 m
elevation
14.6%
steep
SW
southwest
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 253 m 230 to 280 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.14 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 236 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 | 14.6% 8.3°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southwest 222°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 47% upper slope, on an even plane, 103 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 80%Aalenian crinoidal limestone and iron oolite 175–169 million years
- 15%Subvolcanic granitoid (Viséan) about 340–331 million years
- 5%Old river terraces, gravel and sand ouderdom onbepaald (kaart geeft geen ouderdom); waarschijnlijk Kwartair · hatched, outside the column
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards taut, tense white wine with plenty of definition and somewhat less flesh. How strongly that comes through depends mainly on the soil depth within the plot, which can vary greatly on this hard limestone.
Hard, crystalline limestone consisting almost entirely of finely broken stem segments of sea lilies, the entroques, piled up by currents on a shallow, agitated seabed. Fresh, the stone is blue-grey and glitters with calcite; at the surface it weathers to beige and rusty brown. It comes with thin layers of iron-bearing oolites and marly, siliceous limestone beds.
For the vine. Hard and compact, so the roots have to follow cracks and fissures; the soil above is usually shallow, stony and quick to dry. The shallow, stony soil warms up quickly, which can bring ripening forward, although aspect and slope weigh more heavily in that than the rock type. The active lime content can be high, and because the iron in the oolites is bound as oxide and barely available to the plant, it does not remove the chlorosis pressure; the choice of rootstock does.
In the Mâconnais the Aalenian usually lies hidden beneath slope scree at the foot of the cliffs; the rocks of Solutré and Vergisson themselves consist mainly of Bajocian Calcaire à entroques and Calcaire à polypiers.
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: j1-2a, h2γ, F.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:59
above the hill
19:20
behind the hill
11.3 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:59 above the hill and disappears at 19:20 behind the hill: 11.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.0° above the horizon to the north-northeast.
| Irradiation | +2.4% versus flat land 1,099 kWh/m² from April to October, 39% 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 | 99.5% 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 | 06:45 | 20:59 | 14.2 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:59 | 19:20 | 11.3 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:50 | 16:38 | 7.8 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), 24% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
31 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
1.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 31 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 1.9 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.13 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ENE-WSW
diagonal to the slope
1.16 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ENE-WSW (73°) diagonal to the slope (31°), every 1.16 m, varies by plotmeasured over 11.6 of 11.5 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 0.84 haassessed over 10.6 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 4.5 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 15.4 °C, 1991-2020: 17.1 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,718, 1991-2020: 2,022
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 96, 1991-2020: day 85
series homogenised through 2022
Who owns land here
3.16 ha of 13.8 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- LES HOSPICES CIVILS DE BEAUNE10%
- LES VINS GEORGES DUBOEUF7%
- LES AMIS DU BOIS DE LEYNES4%
- GFV LES ROMATHIDES1%
- AUREMAP1%
- 1 other legal entity1%
- private individuals or unknown77%
- 1.41 ha LES HOSPICES CIVILS DE BEAUNE EPA · other
- 0.92 ha LES VINS GEORGES DUBOEUF SA · wine business · organic
- 0.56 ha LES AMIS DU BOIS DE LEYNES GFA · land company
- 0.12 ha GFV LES ROMATHIDES GFA · land company
- 0.09 ha AUREMAP SCI · land company
- 0.07 ha GFA DE VENDEMIAIRE GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 10.7 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 Robées Premier Cru · 100 m
- En Vallee Village · 200 m
- Aux Murs Premier Cru · 250 m
- Lès Plessys Village · 400 m
- Maison du Villard Village · 400 m
- Le Haut de Savy Village · 450 m
- Lès Vignes de la Roche Regional · 450 m
- Lès Verchères de Savy Village · 500 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.