Lieu-dit · Jambles
Les Mey Garnis
Les Mey Garnis is a lieu-dit in Jambles, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
11.8 ha
delimited
344 m
elevation
10.6 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 | Jambles |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 11.8 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 5.60 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 97 |
| 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 34 named plots ranked regional in Jambles, from high to low:
Position
344 m
elevation
18.3%
steep
S
south
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 344 m 304 to 388 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.27 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 309 m, ± 0.05 °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 | 18.3% 10.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | south 178°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 52% upper slope, on an even plane, 181 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 44%Bajocian bioclastic limestone 169.5–168.5 million years
- 12%Lower Bajocian crinoidal limestone 170.9–169.3 million years
- 35%Toarcian marl and clay 184–175 million years
- 9%Domerian marl and sandy limestone about 186–184 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Often linked with firm, long-lived red wine with a taut structure. Several famous parcels lie on it, although the explanation for that lies just as much in slope, fault lines and soil depth.
Limestone consisting almost entirely of broken shell material, formed in moving shallow water on a warm carbonate bank in the Middle Bajocian, roughly 169.5 to 168.5 million years ago. It is hard, porous stone that breaks up into angular blocks, with a coarse-grained, faintly glittering appearance. The famous calcaire à entroques strictly belongs to the Lower Bajocian and on the map falls partly outside this code.
For the vine. Very permeable and stony, with many cracks along which roots can go deep, which helps more in dry years than the small water storage would suggest. Stony soils on this layer warm up quickly, although that is mainly due to the stone cover and the orientation of the slope and not to the limestone itself. The layer is rich in lime, so the rootstock counts, and it works best where the grit is mixed with some marl and fine earth.
Beneath the grands crus of Gevrey-Chambertin lies a sequence running from calcaire à entroques at the bottom via marnes à Ostrea acuminata and clayey limestone to the pierre de Prémeaux at the top; the entroques limestone forms only the lowest band of it.
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: j2b, l4, j2a, l3b-c.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:18
above the hill
18:54
behind the hill
10.6 h
sun at harvest
1.6 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 08:18 above the hill and disappears at 18:54 behind the hill: 10.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.1° above the horizon to the northwest. The relief costs 0.5% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | +3.8% versus flat land 1,097 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 | 98.7% 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
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 07:10 | 20:12 | 13.0 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 08:18 | 18:54 | 10.6 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:45 | 16:30 | 7.8 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), 31% 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
52 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
4.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 52 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 4.2 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.34 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
down the slope
1.05 m
between the rows
93%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (9°) down the slope (11°), every 1.05 m, varies by plotmeasured over 5.3 of 5.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 93% abandoned since: 3.29 ha, planted since: 0.05 haassessed over 7.8 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 22.9 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
Who owns land here
1.01 ha of 11.8 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- LES PIERRES ROUGES6%
- LA MAISON D'AMA2%
- private individuals or unknown91%
- 0.72 ha SARRAZIN FILS GFA · land company
- 0.28 ha LA MAISON D'AMA SC · land company · bare ownership
Private individuals or unknown: 10.8 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
- Le Mey Taurin Regional · 250 m
- En Pourriere Regional · 350 m
- Champ Garambey Village · 400 m
- Les Crets Regional · 400 m
- Les Clous Regional · 400 m
- En Bartias Village · 450 m
- La Paucherie Regional · 500 m
- Masseney Regional · 550 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.