Lieu-dit · Givry
Les Fourneaux
Les Fourneaux is a lieu-dit in Givry, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
7.92 ha
delimited
227 m
elevation
12.0 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 | Givry |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 7.92 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.44 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 59 |
| Grape variety | pinot 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) |
| Organic | 0%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:
Position
227 m
elevation
2.9%
gentle
ESE
east-southeast
foot
even slope
| Elevation | 227 m 223 to 233 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.31 °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) |
| Slope | 2.9% 1.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 109°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 17% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 911 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 23%Alluvium and colluvium of valley floors and footslopes circa 0,12 tot heden
- 64%Heterogeneous slope deposits (colluvium and scree) jonger dan circa 0,13 (laat-Pleistoceen tot Holoceen)
- 13%Bresse Formation, rusty micaceous sand and silt about 3.5–1 million years (Plio-Pleistoceen)
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Many classified plots of the Côte actually root in colluvium and not in the rock the map shows beneath them. That makes this code important for viticulture and geologically uninformative, because what it gives depends on the mixture, the thickness and the slope.
This is not a rock but a mixture of stones, gravel, loam and clay that has slid, crept and washed down the slope, largely during the cold phases of the last ice ages. What it contains depends entirely on what outcrops higher up the slope, so the character can change over a few tens of metres. Largely late Pleistocene to Holocene, younger than about 130,000 years, with the bulk from the last ice age and still slowly moving on steep slopes.
For the vine. Physically this is often a favourable rooting environment: loose, airy, well drained thanks to the stone fraction, with enough fine material to hold moisture. Exactly how favourable depends on the thickness, which varies from a few decimetres to well over a metre and determines the water reserve more than the rock beneath does. A stony top layer warms strongly during the day and at the same time curbs evaporation, so the soil beneath stays moist longer than a bare soil.
Large parts of the slopes of the Côte lie on such deposits, above the rock shown on the map. Slope scree also occurs on the slopes of Chablis, although its extent there is less well documented.
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: Ch, FC, p-IVB6.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:29
above the hill
19:27
behind the hill
12.0 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:29 above the hill and disappears at 19:27 behind the hill: 12.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 5.3° above the horizon to the northwest.
| Irradiation | +0.2% versus flat land 1,061 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) |
|---|
Three reference days, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:55 | 21:02 | 15.1 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:29 | 19:27 | 12.0 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:28 | 16:37 | 8.2 h | 8.5 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.
Air and cold
6 m
above the lowest point
comes close
cold air
a combe
45.3 ha flows past
| Cold air | 6 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 45.3 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 2.23 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
across the slope
1.06 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (34°) across the slope (75°), every 1.06 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.4 of 0.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 6.42 haassessed over 6.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
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
- four
- kiln or oven, often for lime or pottery. Work and use · 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
3.36 ha of 7.92 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- PARIZE33%
- DOMAINE RAGOT5%
- GFA DE LA VERNOISE4%
- private individuals or unknown58%
- 2.63 ha PARIZE GFA · land company
- 0.38 ha DOMAINE RAGOT EARL · wine business
- 0.35 ha GFA DE LA VERNOISE GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 4.56 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
- Virgaudine Village · 200 m
- La Pierre Village · 250 m
- Les Combes Regional · 300 m
- Le Vivier ou les Guinches Regional · 350 m
- La Vernoise Village · 400 m
- Champ Pourot Village · 450 m
- Brusseaux de Charron Village · 450 m
- Champ la Dame Village · 450 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.