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Lieu-dit · Givry

Les Combes

Les Combes is a lieu-dit in Givry, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional. It lies within the official cru Les Combes.

9.73 ha

delimited

224 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

LevelRegional 83%
Premier Cru 17%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
Official cruLes Combes
VillageGivry
RegionCôte Chalonnaise, Burgundy
Delimited9.73 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted1.44 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels49
Grape varietypinot noir, gamay also permitted: chardonnay, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic2%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 11 named plots ranked regional in Givry, from high to low:

sun at harvest 2
elevation 11
slope 11
on the slope 8

Position

224 m

elevation

2.5%

gentle

ESE

east-southeast

foot

even slope

Elevation224 m 220 to 228 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.24 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 265 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)
Slope2.5% 1.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 107°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope23% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 225 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 11%Heterogeneous slope deposits (colluvium and scree) jonger dan circa 0,13 (laat-Pleistoceen tot Holoceen)
  • 73%Bresse Formation, rusty micaceous sand and silt about 3.5–⁠1 million years (Plio-Pleistoceen)
  • 14%Argovien marl and marly limestone 159.5–⁠157.5 million years
  • 3%Oolitic limestone, marl and chailles (late Bathonian to Callovian) 165.5–⁠161.5 million years

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

In the glass. Beneath the lower plots of Rully, Givry, Mellecey and Buxy: simpler, round wines, mostly Bourgogne or village. The premiers crus stand higher up on the Jurassic limestone and the marl. (weak indication)

Reddish-brown, micaceous quartz sand and silt with clayey and marly interbeds, deposited by rivers that filled the Bresse graben in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. The sandy counterpart of p-IVB5; lies on the low ridges and the plain east of the Côte Chalonnaise, from Chagny to Buxy.

For the vine. Lime-poor, light to moderately heavy, reasonably free-draining; warms faster than the marly Bresse clay, but wet where clay layers hold up water. Moderately fertile; little chlorosis risk.

Eastern edge of the Côte Chalonnaise: Chagny, Rully, Fontaines, Mellecey, Givry, Dracy-le-Fort, Saint-Désert, Buxy, Rosey, Jully-lès-Buxy, Saint-Boil, Chenôves, Saules.

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: p-IVB6, j5b, Ch, j3c-4.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:37

above the hill

19:16

behind the hill

11.7 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 07:37 above the hill and disappears at 19:16 behind the hill: 11.7 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.8° above the horizon to the northwest.

Irradiation+0.1% versus flat land 1,059 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 sky99.7% 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
risesetsunday
21 June06:0920:5314.7 h15.9 h
20 September07:3719:1611.7 h12.3 h
21 December08:3216:358.1 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

12 m

above the lowest point

drains away

cold air

a gully

6.0 ha flows past

Cold air12 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through6.0 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.26 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ENE-WSW

diagonal to the slope

1.09 m

between the rows

97%

vineyard in 1950

RowsENE-WSW (67°) diagonal to the slope (40°), every 1.09 m, varies by plotmeasured over 1.3 of 1.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195097% abandoned since: 5.19 ha, rows then ran 48° differentlyassessed over 6.1 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

combe
a dry side valley across the slope, from Gaulish cumba. In the Cote a combe is where cold air drains at night. Relief · BIVB, Des Climats uniques nés d'un environnement naturel varié (2019)

This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.

Who owns land here

1.92 ha of 9.73 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • DOMAINE DELIANCE13%
  • GROUPEMENT FONCIER VITICOLE BOURBON QUATORZE4%
  • PELLETIER HIBON3%
  • private individuals or unknown80%

Private individuals or unknown: 7.81 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.