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Lieu-dit · Chassey-le-Camp

Au Vivier

Au Vivier is a lieu-dit in Chassey-le-Camp, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.

0.53 ha

delimited

280 m

elevation

10.0 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelRegionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageChassey-le-Camp
RegionCôte Chalonnaise, Burgundy
Delimited0.53 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted0.01 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels6
Grape varietychardonnay, pinot noir, pinot blanc, pinot gris, aligoté, melon, sacy also permitted: gamayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 37 named plots ranked regional in Chassey-le-Camp, from high to low:

sun at harvest 31st
elevation 22nd
slope 14th
on the slope 26th

Position

280 m

elevation

16.6%

steep

ESE

east-southeast

mid-slope

concave fold

Elevation280 m 270 to 290 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.23 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 309 m, ± 0.02 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope16.6% 9.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 113°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope29% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 261 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

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  • 10%Slope scree and landslips Laat-Pleistoceen tot heden, plaatselijk nog actief
  • 90%Toarcian marl and clay 184–⁠175 million years

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

In the glass. Tends towards firm, somewhat rustic wine with plenty of substance and less aromatic lift. On its own this substrate says little, because it is almost always covered by weathered material and colluvium from higher up. (weak indication)

Grey to blue-grey marl and clay with thin sandy, micaceous layers, deposited in the Toarcian in a sea that temporarily became oxygen-poor. It is a soft sequence that offers little resistance and forms depressions and gently sloping lower slopes in the landscape. Sand and mica give the clay a little more structure locally, but the profile remains heavy.

For the vine. Retentive, cool soil with a considerable water reserve, slow in spring and prone to compaction. The sandy layers improve aeration here and there, but the whole remains a clay soil that calls for slope and drainage. Little active lime means low chlorosis pressure; waterlogging and excess vigour are the real drawbacks.

Forms the soft lower slopes and depressions on the western edge of the Mâconnais and the Côte chalonnaise, usually under a blanket of colluvium.

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: l4, E.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

08:22

above the hill

18:23

behind the hill

10.0 h

sun at harvest

1.4 h

lost to the hill

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:22 above the hill and disappears at 18:23 behind the hill: 10.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 16.8° above the horizon to the west. The relief costs 0.8% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.

Irradiation+0.2% versus flat land 1,053 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 sky97.3% 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, the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June06:0819:4913.7 h15.9 h
20 September08:2218:2310.0 h12.3 h
21 December09:5015:586.1 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), 29% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

The irradiation loss does include clouds: the average of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC), not any particular year.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

26 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

little inflow

1.9 ha flows past

Cold air26 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through1.9 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.26 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

82%

vineyard in 1950

Vineyard in 195082% abandoned since: 0.44 haassessed over 0.5 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°

station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 7.4 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.1 °C, 1991-2020: 15.2 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,528, 1991-2020: 1,726

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 115, 1991-2020: day 108

raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks

The name

vivier
fish pond, usually belonging to an abbey or a castle. Water · Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française (1881)

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

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.