Lieu-dit · Épineuil
Les Buissons
Les Buissons is a lieu-dit in Épineuil, Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
6.57 ha
delimited
169 m
elevation
11.6 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 | Épineuil |
| Region | Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 6.57 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.62 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 64 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay, 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) |
| Organic | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 31 named plots ranked regional in Épineuil, from high to low:
Position
169 m
elevation
5.7%
gentle
WSW
west-southwest
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 169 m 160 to 179 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.18 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 202 m, ± 0.02 °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 | 5.7% 3.2°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | west-southwest 244°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 29% mid slope, on an even plane, 308 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 99%Astarte limestone, Lower Kimmeridgian 155–152 million years
In the glass. Associated in the trade with taut white wine with little opulence. The difference from the neighbouring lagoonal limestones is small and the cover layer above decides more than the rock beneath. (weak indication)
Beige, very fine-grained limestone consisting largely of hardened lime mud and containing few fossils, apart from a few beds packed with Astarte, a small burrowing bivalve. Deposited in a very shallow, well-sheltered lagoon on the warm platform, about 155 to 152 million years ago. This code and j6b are lithological variants within the same Lower Kimmeridgian level and not two successive ages.
For the vine. Fairly hard, regularly bedded rock that breaks up into flat slabs and yields a shallow, stony, fast-draining soil. It warms quickly and dries out quickly too, so the vine depends on how much fine material there is in the cover layer. Roots mainly follow the joints and the bedding, and the active lime content is high.
Outcrops on the slopes and plateau edges of the Tonnerrois and the Châtillonnais, usually beneath a cover of weathered material.
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: j7b.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:51
above the hill
19:28
behind the hill
11.6 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:51 above the hill and disappears at 19:28 behind the hill: 11.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 5.6° above the horizon to the northeast.
| Irradiation | +0.6% versus flat land 1,009 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 (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Open sky | 99.7% 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 | 06:27 | 21:31 | 15.1 h | 16.0 h |
| 20 September | 07:51 | 19:28 | 11.6 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:43 | 16:28 | 7.8 h | 8.4 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), 33% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
19 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a gully
2.6 ha flows past
| Cold air | 19 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 2.6 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.18 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SE-NW
across the slope
1.10 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SE-NW (138°) across the slope (74°), every 1.10 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.6 of 0.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 4.27 ha, rows then ran 23° differentlyassessed over 4.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHABLIS_SAPC, 141 m, 15.9 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
The name
- buisson
- scrub, bushes. Vegetation · 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
0.09 ha of 6.57 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE D'EPINEUIL1%
- private individuals or unknown99%
- 0.09 ha COMMUNE D'EPINEUIL COM · public
Private individuals or unknown: 6.48 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
- Les Grandes Poches Regional · 350 m
- Les Petites Poches Regional · 350 m
- Les Hautes Poches Regional · 550 m
- Les Petites Bridennes Regional · 700 m
- Les Grandes Bridennes Regional · 700 m
- Le Petit Quincy Regional · 750 m
- La Biaree Regional · 750 m
- Les Ardilliers 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.