Lieu-dit · Charnay-lès-Mâcon
La Grande Terre
La Grande Terre is a lieu-dit in Charnay-lès-Mâcon, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
6.74 ha
delimited
210 m
elevation
11.2 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 | Charnay-lès-Mâcon |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 6.74 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 6.31 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 2 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay also permitted: aligoté, pinot blanc, pinot gris, melon, sacyinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 5%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 62 named plots ranked regional in Charnay-lès-Mâcon, from high to low:
Position
210 m
elevation
6.7%
firm
E
east
mid-slope
concave fold
| Elevation | 210 m 203 to 220 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.23 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 241 m, ± 0.04 °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 | 6.7% 3.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east 93°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 26% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 437 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 65%Old river terraces, gravel and sand Midden- tot Laat-Pleistoceen, niet gedateerd
- 35%Triassic to Hettangian, undifferentiated about 235–199 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards supple, early-drinking wine with limited concentration. The stone content and the thickness of the clay layer in the plot make more difference than the label alluvium suggests. (weak indication)
Gravel, sand and rounded pebbles that the rivers left behind on low to middle terraces in the Pleistocene, usually topped by a few decimetres of brown or red-brown clay. The pebbles are largely limestone, alongside material from the crystalline and siliciclastic hinterland; the mixing ratio depends on the catchment. The terraces lie as flat steps above the present valley and cannot be dated precisely; the low terraces are younger than the middle ones.
For the vine. Gravel-rich and very well drained, and often slightly warmer than the surrounding plain, primarily because of the better drainage, the drier topsoil and the slightly higher position above the valley. The downside is drought sensitivity as soon as the clay layer on top is thin; where that layer thickens, the profile is heavier and cooler instead. Lime-rich gravel means a moderate to high active lime content, and the flat position makes the plot prone to frost.
Forms the terraces along the Saône, the Dheune and the Ouche, largely under the regional appellations.
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: Fx-y, tA-l1.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:27
above the flat horizon
18:39
behind the hill
11.2 h
sun at harvest
0.7 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:27 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:39 behind the hill: 11.2 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 13.2° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | −0.4% versus flat land 1,063 kWh/m² from April to October, 41% 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:53 | 20:07 | 14.2 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:27 | 18:39 | 11.2 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:27 | 15:43 | 7.3 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), 26% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
12 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a gully
7.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 12 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 7.2 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.48 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
E-W
down the slope
1.29 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | E-W (98°) down the slope (5°), every 1.29 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 6.3 of 6.3 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% rows then ran 85° differentlyassessed over 6.7 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 1.4 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
The name
- grand
- large, usually relative to a smaller plot with the same name. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- terre
- soil, almost always with a colour or quality attached: Terres Rouges, Fortes Terres. Soil and stone · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- Vignes des Essards Regional · 300 m
- Vigne de la Combe Regional · 750 m
- Vigne de la Croix Regional · 800 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.