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Lieu-dit · Étrigny

Ez Vernattes

Ez Vernattes is a lieu-dit in Étrigny, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.

1.48 ha

delimited

251 m

elevation

11.0 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)
VillageÉtrigny
RegionMâconnais, Burgundy
Delimited1.48 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted0.16 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels8
Grape varietygamay / chardonnay also permitted: pinot noir, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, 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)
Organic0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 12 named plots ranked regional in Étrigny, from high to low:

sun at harvest 5
elevation 12
slope 9
on the slope 10

Position

251 m

elevation

11.5%

firm

W

west

mid-slope

concave fold

Elevation251 m 246 to 258 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.25 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 286 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)
Slope11.5% 6.6°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectwest 277°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope26% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 132 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

  • 100%Porphyritic monzogranite and quartz monzonite, Carboniferous about 350–⁠330 million years (Dinantien, inferred from the map, not radiometric)

In the glass. Tends towards fragrant, finely built wines with tannin that is supple rather than broad. In practice that picture comes at least as much from the shallow, poor soil and the exposure as from the rock itself.

Igneous rock that crystallised deep in the crust during the building of the Hercynian mountain chain, roughly 350 to 330 million years ago. Porphyritic means that centimetre-sized feldspar crystals sit in a finer groundmass, which gives the stone its mottled, pink to pale grey appearance. At the surface this rock weathers to a coarse-grained, crumbly sand known locally as gore or arène, with half-rotted rock beneath; the depth at which solid rock begins varies greatly, from a few decimetres to several metres.

For the vine. Lime-free and acid, so virtually no risk of chlorosis, but no lime buffer either. The arène is very free-draining and warms quickly, which favours early ripening, but holds little water, so the depth of the weathered layer determines whether the vineyard gets through a dry summer. On shallow, steep plots it dries out quickly; where weathering goes metres deep, the vine roots far down and the water supply is in fact remarkably regular.

Occurs in the granite knolls of the southern Mâconnais around Chasselas and Leynes. Which Beaujolais crus lie precisely on this unit cannot be established without a parcel map; the well-known pink granite of Fleurie and Moulin-à-Vent belongs to a younger massif.

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: h1-2pγ3.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

08:41

above the hill

19:43

below the flat horizon

11.0 h

sun at harvest

0.5 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 08:41 above the hill and disappears at 19:43 below the flat horizon: 11.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 13.4° above the horizon to the southeast.

Irradiation−1.1% versus flat land 1,042 kWh/m² from April to October, 42% 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 sky99.2% 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
risesetsunday
21 June06:4521:3114.8 h15.8 h
20 September08:4119:4311.0 h12.3 h
21 December10:1516:316.3 h8.6 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), 35% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

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

1.1 ha flows past

Cold air26 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through1.1 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.11 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

NNE-SSW

across the slope

1.30 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsNNE-SSW (12°) across the slope (86°), every 1.30 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.2 of 0.2 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100% abandoned since: 0.28 haassessed over 0.3 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°18°

station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 24.7 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 13.5 °C, 1991-2020: 15.1 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,248, 1991-2020: 1,553

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 107, 1991-2020: day 101

series homogenised through 2022

Who owns land here

0.06 ha of 1.48 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • SYNDICAT INTERCOMMUNAL DES EAUX DE LA REGION DE SENNECEY LE4%
  • private individuals or unknown96%

Private individuals or unknown: 1.41 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.