Lieu-dit · Givry
Les Grands Prés
Les Grands Prés is a lieu-dit in Givry, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
2.92 ha
delimited
320 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
| Level | Regional 86% Village 14%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Givry |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 2.92 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.40 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 29 |
| Grape variety | aligoté, chardonnay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot gris, gamay, pinot noir, césar also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, melon, 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
320 m
elevation
17.6%
steep
ESE
east-southeast
mid-slope
concave fold
| Elevation | 320 m 300 to 336 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.46 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 265 m, ± 0.05 °C. at night position matters, not elevation, see cold airmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 17.6% 10.0°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 120°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 42% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 1,080 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 35%Lower Bajocian crinoidal limestone 170.9–169.3 million years
- 65%Toarcian marl and clay 184–175 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards firm, somewhat rustic wine with plenty of substance and less aromatic lift. On its own this substrate says little, because it is almost always covered by weathered material and colluvium from higher up. (weak indication)
Grey to blue-grey marl and clay with thin sandy, micaceous layers, deposited in the Toarcian in a sea that temporarily became oxygen-poor. It is a soft sequence that offers little resistance and forms depressions and gently sloping lower slopes in the landscape. Sand and mica give the clay a little more structure locally, but the profile remains heavy.
For the vine. Retentive, cool soil with a considerable water reserve, slow in spring and prone to compaction. The sandy layers improve aeration here and there, but the whole remains a clay soil that calls for slope and drainage. Little active lime means low chlorosis pressure; waterlogging and excess vigour are the real drawbacks.
Forms the soft lower slopes and depressions on the western edge of the Mâconnais and the Côte chalonnaise, usually under a blanket of colluvium.
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: l4, j2a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:39
above the hill
18:41
behind the hill
11.0 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:39 above the hill and disappears at 18:41 behind the hill: 11.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.0° above the horizon to the south-southwest. The relief costs 0.5% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | +1.1% versus flat land 1,070 kWh/m² from April to October, 40% 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 | 98.0% 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 | 06:27 | 20:22 | 13.9 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:39 | 18:41 | 11.0 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:37 | 14:54 | 6.3 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.
The irradiation loss does include clouds: the average of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC), not any particular year.
Air and cold
34 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a main drain
72.9 ha flows past
0.2 m
hollow traps the cold
| Cold air | 34 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 72.9 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 6.89 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Cold air hollow | 0.2 m depth over which cold air settlesign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
across the slope
1.02 m
between the rows
66%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (2°) across the slope (62°), every 1.02 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.4 of 0.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 66% abandoned since: 1.21 ha, rows then ran 67° differentlyassessed over 1.8 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
- grand
- large, usually relative to a smaller plot with the same name. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- pre
- meadow. Ground that carried grass before the vines came, or lay beside them. Vegetation · 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
1.13 ha of 2.92 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE DE GIVRY30%
- SCEV CHOFFLET5%
- LA MAISON D'AMA3%
- private individuals or unknown61%
- 0.89 ha COMMUNE DE GIVRY COM · public
- 0.15 ha SCEV CHOFFLET SCEA · wine business
- 0.09 ha LA MAISON D'AMA SC · land company · bare ownership
Private individuals or unknown: 1.79 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
- La Pièce Village · 100 m
- Les Pommes-Roi Regional · 100 m
- Russilly Regional · 250 m
- Les Fontenottes Village · 250 m
- Les Dos d'Anes Regional · 250 m
- Les Galaffres Premier Cru · 350 m
- Les Vignes Rondes Village · 400 m
- Les Grognots 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.