Lieu-dit · Cruzille
La Croix
La Croix is a lieu-dit in Cruzille, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
8.90 ha
delimited
285 m
elevation
10.8 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 | Cruzille |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 8.90 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 2.94 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 20 |
| 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 | 7%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 65 named plots ranked regional in Cruzille, from high to low:
Position
285 m
elevation
9.9%
firm
NE
northeast
foot
concave fold
| Elevation | 285 m 272 to 307 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.27 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 322 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) |
| Slope | 9.9% 5.6°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | northeast 54°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 19% foot of the slope, in a concave hollow, 998 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 38%Oolitic limestone, marl and chailles (late Bathonian to Callovian) 165.5–161.5 million years
- 20%Marl and marly limestone, upper Bathonian to Oxfordian (undifferentiated) 166–155 million years
- 41%Massive Bathonian limestone, dolomitic top 166.5–165.3 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Where the soil stays thin, this tends towards compact, firm wine that opens slowly and shows little volume. In a hot, dry year the main effect is above all water stress, not a flavour that comes from the stone itself.
Thick, hard, virtually unbedded limestone, formed on a warm shallow platform where fine lime mud was bound by algae and burrowing animals. The well-known Comblanchien belongs to this level and is quarried as building stone; it recurs under more than one map code, depending on how the map sheet has subdivided the sequence. At the top the rock is dolomitised, so that on weathering it breaks up into a more crumbly, sandier material; Upper Bathonian, 166.5 to 165.3 million years old.
For the vine. This is one of the hardest and most erosion-resistant rocks of the Côte and it forms the rocky upper edge of the slope, with very thin, extremely stony soils and almost no water reserve. Roots have to rely on joints and fissures, the soil warms quickly, drains completely and is strongly calcareous, so that without a colluvial cover or a marl band beneath the vine suffers in a dry year. The dolomitised top weathers to a sandier, looser soil with less active lime, although the total carbonate content remains high.
Forms the hard upper edge of the Côte de Nuits, with the well-known quarries at Comblanchien and Corgoloin.
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: j3c, j3c-4, j3-5.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:52
above the hill
18:42
behind the hill
10.8 h
sun at harvest
1.0 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 07:52 above the hill and disappears at 18:42 behind the hill: 10.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 11.2° above the horizon to the west-northwest.
| Irradiation | −2.4% versus flat land 1,030 kWh/m² from April to October, 43% 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 | 99.0% 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 | 06:11 | 20:21 | 14.2 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:52 | 18:42 | 10.8 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:56 | 16:11 | 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), 41% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
23 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a combe
36.0 ha flows past
| Cold air | 23 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 36.0 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 1.57 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
diagonal to the slope
1.38 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (107°) diagonal to the slope (53°), every 1.38 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 2.3 of 2.9 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 3.62 haassessed over 6.8 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 23.4 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
- croix
- cross. A wayside or boundary cross that served as a landmark. Ownership and saints · 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
0.06 ha of 8.90 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE DE CRUZILLE1%
- private individuals or unknown99%
- 0.06 ha COMMUNE DE CRUZILLE COM · public
Private individuals or unknown: 8.84 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
- La Motte Regional · 150 m
- Lès Champs de Bray Regional · 250 m
- Lès Molards Regional · 250 m
- En Curty Regional · 250 m
- La Condemine Regional · 250 m
- En Miguet Regional · 300 m
- Derrière Grandjean Regional · 300 m
- Sous Moine Regional · 350 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.