Lieu-dit · Fley
Le Côte
Le Côte is a lieu-dit in Fley, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
2.30 ha
delimited
364 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 | Fley |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 2.30 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.36 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 20 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir / chardonnay also permitted: pinot blanc, pinot gris, césar, 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 19 named plots ranked regional in Fley, from high to low:
Position
364 m
elevation
22.2%
very steep
W
west
upper
concave fold
| Elevation | 364 m 351 to 379 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.11 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 378 m, ± 0.01 °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 | 22.2% 12.5°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | west 276°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 47% upper slope, in a concave hollow, 391 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 76%Sinemurian limestone with Gryphaea 199–187 million years
- 24%Rhaetian to earliest Jurassic: sandstone, clay and shelly limestone about 208–200 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. In practice gives firm, somewhat austere wine with clear acidity. The literature on this soil in Burgundy is thin, so read this as an indication and not as a rule. (weak indication)
Hard, dark grey to blue-grey limestone beds alternating with marl, packed with the thick curved oyster Gryphaea and with ammonites, deposited in shallow and muddy seawater of the Early Jurassic. It is the first prominent ridge-forming limestone bed above the Trias; the Hettangian beneath it already yields limestone, but rarely forms a distinct ridge. The stone is less pure than the limestone of the Côte, because it contains a lot of clay.
For the vine. A limestone ridge with a shallow, stony soil on top and clay in between, well drained and quick to warm, but with little reserve on the thin parts. Where the beds are well fissured, rooting can reach further than the visible soil depth suggests; how far varies greatly from plot to plot. Active lime is present but usually lower than on pure limestone, so chlorosis is a moderate risk.
Occurs in the Côte chalonnaise and on the western edge of the Mâconnais, where the Lias protrudes above the Trias.
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: l2-l3a, t7-l1.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:42
over the crest of the slope
19:31
behind the hill
10.8 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:42 over the crest of the slope and disappears at 19:31 behind the hill: 10.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 13.4° above the horizon to the east.
| Irradiation | −2.4% versus flat land 1,031 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 | 99.1% 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 | 07:19 | 21:35 | 14.3 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 08:42 | 19:31 | 10.8 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:39 | 16:19 | 6.7 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), 25% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
38 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
5.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 38 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 5.9 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.45 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
E-W
down the slope
1.07 m
between the rows
94%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | E-W (95°) down the slope (1°), every 1.07 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.3 of 1.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 94% abandoned since: 0.71 haassessed over 2.0 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 13.3 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
The name
- cote
- slope, the flank of a ridge. The word that gave the whole region its name. Relief · 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
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- Les Écoisses Regional · 150 m
- Clos Laboureau Regional · 200 m
- Sous le Bois Regional · 200 m
- Creux Buricaux Regional · 200 m
- La Tramassiere Regional · 300 m
- Les Communautes Regional · 350 m
- Le Clos Regional · 350 m
- La Vigne Blanche 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.