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Lieu-dit · Crouttes-sur-Marne

Le Clos de Porteron

Le Clos de Porteron is a lieu-dit in Crouttes-sur-Marne, Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.

3.37 ha

delimited

60 m

elevation

11.1 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelChampagneinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune)
VillageCrouttes-sur-Marne
RegionVallée de la Marne, Champagne
Delimited3.37 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted1.58 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels16
Grape varietymeunier 55 %, chardonnay 28 %, pinot noir 17 % 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)
Organic0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 44 named plots ranked champagne in Crouttes-sur-Marne, from high to low:

sun at harvest 39th
elevation 43rd
slope 30th
on the slope 43rd

Position

60 m

elevation

8.1%

firm

WSW

west-southwest

foot

concave fold

Elevation60 m 56 to 70 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.34 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 129 m, ± 0.10 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope8.1% 4.6°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectwest-southwest 252°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope4% foot of the slope, in a concave hollow, 347 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 78%Modern alluvium of the rivers 0.012–⁠0 million years
  • 23%Lutetian limestone, undifferentiated 47.8–⁠41.2 million years

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

In the glass. As a rule yields simple, supple wine. This substrate says little on its own and is rarely regarded in Burgundy as a carrier of quality. (weak indication)

The youngest river deposits, from the Holocene to the present day, so roughly the last twelve thousand years. Sand, silt, clay and gravel in the active floodplain, still in motion at high water. Variable from place to place, because every bend of the river deposits something different.

For the vine. Even flatter, wetter and younger than Fy, with a water table that can stay close beneath the surface. Water is never the problem here, vigour and late ripening are, and frost sensitivity in April is high. Only where the deposit is gravelly enough is drainage acceptable.

Along the Saône and the streams that run out of the combes into the plain, outside the hillside 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: Fz, e5.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

08:21

above the hill

19:24

behind the hill

11.1 h

sun at harvest

0.8 h

lost to the hill

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:21 above the hill and disappears at 19:24 behind the hill: 11.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.7° above the horizon to the east-northeast.

Irradiation+0.3% versus flat land 994 kWh/m² from April to October, 46% 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)
Open sky99.1% of the sky the slope itself sees; the surrounding relief blocks the restign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)
Three reference days, the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June06:4921:3714.8 h16.2 h
20 September08:2119:2411.1 h12.3 h
21 December09:1315:556.7 h8.2 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), 39% 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

6 m

above the lowest point

comes close

cold air

a gully

6.6 ha flows past

Cold air6 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through6.6 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.33 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ENE-WSW

down the slope

1.05 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsENE-WSW (74°) down the slope (2°), every 1.05 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.6 of 1.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100%assessed over 3.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

1980200014°16°

station ST-CYR/MORIN-BG, 63 m, 9.0 km away

raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks

The name

clos
an enclosed plot, walled or hedged. In Burgundy the wall often carries a monastic or seigneurial past; clou and cloux are the same root in diminutive form. Ownership and saints · Association des Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne, Les noms des Climats (2026)

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

Who owns land here

0.47 ha of 3.37 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • GFA DES AULNOYES14%
  • private individuals or unknown86%

Private individuals or unknown: 2.90 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.