Lieu-dit · Dijon
Le Bas des Charmes
Le Bas des Charmes is a lieu-dit in Dijon, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
1.48 ha
delimited
368 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 | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Dijon |
| Region | Côte de Nuits, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 1.48 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.72 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 14 |
| Grape variety | aligoté, chardonnay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot gris, gamay, pinot noir, césar also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, melon, 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 8 named plots ranked regional in Dijon, from high to low:
Position
368 m
elevation
6.5%
firm
ENE
east-northeast
shoulder
even slope
| Elevation | 368 m 365 to 374 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.22 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 340 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) |
| Slope | 6.5% 3.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-northeast 58°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 75% shoulder, on an even plane, 127 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 10%Argovien marl and marly limestone 159.5–157.5 million years
- 60%Oxfordian marl and clayey limestone 162–155 million years
- 30%Dalle nacrée, Bathonian to Callovian about 166.5–163 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards wine with somewhat more flesh and breadth and slightly later ripening than the hard limestone beds. Because the code covers an entire stage the spread is wide and a statement about flavour here is above all an expectation.
The same sea as j5a, but the code covers the whole Oxfordian, and so also the harder limestones of the Upper Oxfordian. The proportion of marl therefore varies greatly from map sheet to map sheet. In the soil predominantly grey-blue and crumbly, with intervening slabby limestone beds; Oxfordian, about 162 to 155 million years old.
For the vine. A water-retaining substrate that provides a clear reserve in dry years, but warms slowly in spring and becomes heavy when wet. The roots go readily into the marl as long as there is slope to carry the water away; on flat stretches it quickly becomes too cold and too wet. The active lime content varies greatly with the proportion of limestone, so chlorosis is a separate question for each plot.
Mainly on the upper slopes and in the Hautes-Côtes, where the marl bands form broad zones.
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: j5, j4a, j5b.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:25
above the flat horizon
19:09
behind the hill
11.7 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:25 above the flat horizon and disappears at 19:09 behind the hill: 11.7 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 7.7° above the horizon to the west-southwest.
| Irradiation | −1.2% versus flat land 1,019 kWh/m² from April to October, 44% 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) |
|---|
Three reference days, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:45 | 21:29 | 15.7 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:25 | 19:09 | 11.7 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:26 | 16:13 | 7.8 h | 8.5 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), 37% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
51 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
0.6 ha flows past
| Cold air | 51 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 0.6 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.12 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
diagonal to the slope
1.09 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (9°) diagonal to the slope (50°), every 1.09 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.7 of 0.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 0.61 haassessed over 1.5 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station DIJON-LONGVIC, 219 m, 8.2 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.7 °C, 1991-2020: 16.2 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,677, 1991-2020: 1,881
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 100, 1991-2020: day 100
series homogenised through 2022
The name
- bas
- low, the lower part of a named plot. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- charme
- two readings, both attested: the hornbeam (charme), or Latin calmis for bare uncultivated high ground, the same root as chaume. For any single vineyard the name alone does not tell you which applies. Vegetation · Sylvain Pitiot en Marie-Hélène Landrieu-Lussigny, Climats et lieux-dits des grands vignobles de Bourgogne (2025)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
1.26 ha of 1.48 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- CHAMBRE DEPARTEMENTALE D AGRICULTURE28%
- DIJON METROPOLE28%
- DOMAINE DU TUMULUS28%
- private individuals or unknown15%
- 0.42 ha CHAMBRE DEPARTEMENTALE D AGRICULTURE EPIC · public · emphyteusis
- 0.42 ha DIJON METROPOLE MET · other
- 0.42 ha DOMAINE DU TUMULUS SCEA · wine business
Private individuals or unknown: 0.22 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
- Chaudois Regional · 100 m
- Pré Chaudois Regional · 600 m
- Coteau aux Buis Regional · 650 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.