Lieu-dit · Charly-sur-Marne
Les Pelles a Four
Les Pelles a Four is a lieu-dit in Charly-sur-Marne, Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.
10.4 ha
delimited
130 m
elevation
11.7 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Champagneinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) |
|---|---|
| Village | Charly-sur-Marne |
| Region | Vallée de la Marne, Champagne |
| Delimited | 10.4 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 9.86 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 60 |
| Grape variety | meunier 76 %, chardonnay 17 %, pinot noir 8 % also permitted: arbane, petit meslier, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 63 named plots ranked champagne in Charly-sur-Marne, from high to low:
Position
130 m
elevation
15.4%
steep
SW
southwest
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 130 m 97 to 146 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Slope | 15.4% 8.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southwest 218°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 51% upper slope, on an even plane, 204 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 65%Marl and limestone of Saint-Ouen 39–38 million years
- 34%Bartonian sand and sandstone of Beauchamp 41–39 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. What this substrate gives cannot be separated from the high, cool position on the slope and the shallow soil. No wine style can be attached to the formation itself. (weak indication)
An irregular alternation of white marl and hard limestone beds, deposited in brackish lagoons and freshwater lakes at the end of the Middle Eocene (Bartonian, Marinesian), roughly 39 to 38 million years ago. The fossils are freshwater snails such as pond snails and ramshorn snails, not marine animals. The layer is thin and lies high in the sequence, often just below the plateau edge.
For the vine. The hard beds drain and the marl holds water, so rooting varies sharply over short distances and neighbouring parcels respond differently to drought. The soils are rich in lime, with a real risk of chlorosis, to be determined per parcel. Because the unit usually lies at the top of the slope, the soil there is thin and aspect counts more than the rock.
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: e6bSO, e6aB.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:04
over the crest of the slope
19:44
behind the hill
11.7 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:04 over the crest of the slope and disappears at 19:44 behind the hill: 11.7 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.8° above the horizon to the north-northeast.
| Irradiation | +2.8% versus flat land 1,020 kWh/m² from April to October, 45% 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 | 99.8% 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 | 06:44 | 21:44 | 15.0 h | 16.2 h |
| 20 September | 08:04 | 19:44 | 11.7 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:51 | 16:47 | 7.9 h | 8.2 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), 35% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
42 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
1.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 42 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 0.19 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NNE-SSW
down the slope
1.04 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NNE-SSW (26°) down the slope (12°), every 1.04 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 9.6 of 9.9 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 10.0 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
The name
- four
- kiln or oven, often for lime or pottery. Work and use · 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
1.43 ha of 10.4 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- CHAMPAGNE BARON ALBERT12%
- GFA LES ARPETINS1%
- DE LA BERGERIE1%
- private individuals or unknown86%
- 1.21 ha LE CHEMIN DE CITRY GFA · land company
- 0.14 ha GFA LES ARPETINS GFA · land company
- 0.07 ha DE LA BERGERIE GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 8.98 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
- Les Barbottes Champagne · 250 m
- Les Hautes Blanches Vignes Champagne · 250 m
- Les Raies Champagne · 300 m
- Les Brises Bêches Champagne · 400 m
- Les Blanches Vignes Champagne · 400 m
- Les Ruisseaux Champagne · 450 m
- Le Bas des Ruisseaux Champagne · 500 m
- Les Boulards Champagne · 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.