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Lieu-dit · Chambolle-Musigny

Lès Amoureuses

Lès Amoureuses is a lieu-dit in Chambolle-Musigny, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Les Amoureuses.

5.27 ha

delimited

265 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

LevelPremier Cruinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
Official cruLes Amoureuses
VillageChambolle-Musigny
RegionCôte de Nuits, Burgundy
Delimited5.27 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted4.66 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels49
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)
Organic16%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 22 named plots ranked premier cru in Chambolle-Musigny, from high to low:

sun at harvest 18
elevation 17
slope 2
on the slope 7

Position

265 m

elevation

14.2%

steep

ESE

east-southeast

mid-slope

even slope

Elevation265 m 239 to 281 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.05 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 272 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)
Slope14.2% 8.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 116°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope20% mid slope, on an even plane, 190 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 82%Bathonian limestone (Comblanchien and Nod) 168–⁠165 million years
  • 6%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–⁠166 million years
  • 11%Crinoidal limestone, Aalenian to Bajocian about 174–⁠169 million years

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

In the glass. Tends towards taut, firmly built wine that develops slowly. That effect works mainly through soil depth and drought stress and not through a direct transfer from stone to glass.

Shell debris, lime gravel, ooids and oncoids, small knobbly algal balls, cemented into a hard limestone on a warm and shallow platform. This sequence includes the Pierre de Comblanchien from the quarries of the Côte de Nuits and the Pierre de Nod from the Châtillonnais. The Comblanchien recurs under more than one map code, depending on how the map sheet has subdivided the sequence; Bathonian, about 168 to 165 million years old.

For the vine. Hard rock of low porosity that gives a thin, distinctly stony soil with a small water reserve, in which roots follow joints and bedding rather than the stone itself. The stones warm quickly; how much reflected light and heat actually reaches the bunch depends on row orientation and canopy management. The active lime content is high, and on flat ground without a colluvial cover there is simply too little soil.

The quarries of Comblanchien and Corgoloin on the southern edge of the Côte de Nuits; the Pierre de Nod is named after Nod-sur-Seine in the Châtillonnais.

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: j3, j1-2, j3a.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:26

above the flat horizon

18:47

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 07:26 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:47 behind the hill: 11.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 9.2° above the horizon to the west.

Irradiation+1.2% versus flat land 1,058 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 (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026)
Three reference days and the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June05:4720:3914.9 h15.9 h
20 September07:2618:4711.3 h12.3 h
21 December08:2616:157.8 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

27 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a combe

19.6 ha flows past

Cold air27 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through19.6 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.17 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ESE-WNW

down the slope

1.01 m

between the rows

92%

vineyard in 1950

RowsESE-WNW (122°) down the slope (6°), every 1.01 m, varies by plotmeasured over 4.5 of 4.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195092% abandoned since: 0.06 ha, planted since: 0.26 haassessed over 3.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202014°16°18°

station DIJON-LONGVIC, 219 m, 13.6 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

The name

Usually read as the lovable ones, about ground that works easily. A name that gives a verdict rather than a description, and whose origin is undocumented. Sylvain Pitiot en Marie-Hélène Landrieu-Lussigny, Climats et lieux-dits des grands vignobles de Bourgogne (2025)

This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.

Who owns land here

3.38 ha of 5.27 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • DOMAINE ROBERT GROFFIER PERE ET FILS21%
  • JFCM10%
  • DOMAINE G ROUMIER ET SES FILS8%
  • GROUPEMENT FONCIER AGRICOLE DU DOMAINE BERNARD SERVEAU ET FI7%
  • GFA BERTHEAU ET FILS6%
  • 4 other legal entities13%
  • private individuals or unknown36%

Private individuals or unknown: 1.89 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.