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Lieu-dit · Givry

Champ la Dame

Champ la Dame is a lieu-dit in Givry, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

7.69 ha

delimited

232 m

elevation

11.8 h

sun at harvest

Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.

In figures

LevelVillageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageGivry
RegionCôte Chalonnaise, Burgundy
Delimited7.69 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted6.98 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels42
Grape varietypinot noir / chardonnay also permitted: pinot gris, pinot blancinao-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 28 named plots ranked village in Givry, from high to low:

sun at harvest 5th
elevation 19th
slope 18th
on the slope 23rd

Position

232 m

elevation

4.0%

gentle

ESE

east-southeast

foot

even slope

Elevation232 m 226 to 239 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.27 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 265 m, ± 0.03 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope4.0% 2.3°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 121°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope18% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 456 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 17%Alluvium and colluvium of valley floors and footslopes circa 0,12 tot heden
  • 2%Heterogeneous slope deposits (colluvium and scree) jonger dan circa 0,13 (laat-Pleistoceen tot Holoceen)
  • 80%Upper Oxfordian limestone (Saint-Romain) about 157–⁠155 million years

Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.

In the glass. Tends towards taut white wines with firm acidity and little fat, and in reds towards slender wines that can turn out lean in cool years. Altitude and aspect presumably do more here than the rock. (weak indication)

Light, hard limestone from a warm, shallow sea with small reefs and shell banks, roughly 157 to 155 million years ago. These beds form above all the plateaux and the upper rim above the Côte, and parts of the ridges of the Côte Chalonnaise. In the ground it is slabs and fragments of stone in a thin brown soil, often no more than a few decimetres deep.

For the vine. Very fast drainage and little fine earth, so a small water supply and sensitivity to drought, unless there is marl beneath or scree is supplied from above. The stone stores warmth by day, but the high position makes these plots cooler and later than the classic slopes. The active lime content is usually high here, which calls for a deliberate choice of rootstock to avoid chlorosis.

The formation is named after Saint-Romain; it also comes to the surface near Givry and Germolles, among other places.

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: j5d, FC, Ch.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:31

above the hill

19:17

behind the hill

11.8 h

sun at harvest

Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:31 above the hill and disappears at 19:17 behind the hill: 11.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.7° above the horizon to the west-northwest.

Irradiation+0.5% versus flat land 1,064 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 sky99.8% 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, the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June05:5520:5114.9 h15.9 h
20 September07:3119:1711.8 h12.3 h
21 December08:2616:358.2 h8.5 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), 29% 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

8 m

above the lowest point

comes close

cold air

a combe

11.3 ha flows past

Cold air8 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through11.3 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.40 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ESE-WNW

down the slope

1.05 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsESE-WNW (116°) down the slope (5°), every 1.05 m, varies by plotmeasured over 6.7 of 7.0 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100% abandoned since: 0.35 ha, rows then ran 80° differentlyassessed over 5.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°

station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 20.0 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.1 °C, 1991-2020: 15.2 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,528, 1991-2020: 1,726

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 115, 1991-2020: day 108

raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks

The name

champ
field, from Latin campus. The third most common element in this atlas and usually descriptive: open arable land, often predating the vines. Work and use · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
dame
Our Lady or the Hotel-Dieu; church or charitable land ownership. 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

0.75 ha of 7.69 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • SCEA CHAMP DE LA DAME5%
  • DES MURGERS4%
  • private individuals or unknown90%

Private individuals or unknown: 6.94 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.