Lieu-dit · La Chapelle-de-Guinchay
En Rubede
En Rubede is a lieu-dit in La Chapelle-de-Guinchay, Beaujolais in Saône-et-Loire, whose largest tier is regional.
5.03 ha
delimited
210 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 | La Chapelle-de-Guinchay |
| Region | Beaujolais in Saône-et-Loire |
| Delimited | 5.03 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.58 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 1 |
| Grape variety | gamay also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, melon, pinot gris, pinot noir, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenayinao-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 22 named plots ranked regional in La Chapelle-de-Guinchay, from high to low:
Position
210 m
elevation
4.4%
gentle
NE
northeast
mid-slope
convex ridge
| Elevation | 210 m 203 to 215 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.12 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 227 m, ± 0.05 °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 | 4.4% 2.5°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | northeast 51°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 44% mid slope, on a convex ridge, 83 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Old clayey alluvium, locally with chailles 2,58 tot circa 0,4 (Vroeg tot Midden-Pleistoceen, niet nauwkeurig gedateerd)
In the glass. In practice yields supple, early-drinking wine with less concentration. That has more to do with soil depth, fertility and flat position than with the alluvium itself. (weak indication)
Old river deposits that have not been subdivided further: clayey loam with gravel, locally with fragments of chailles, hard siliceous nodules left behind as insoluble residue from the Jurassic limestone. The deposit dates from the Pleistocene, which begins 2.58 million years ago, and lies in the plain and on old terrace remnants. It is by definition a mixture, because what it contains depends on which rocks the river cut into upstream.
For the vine. Deep, often fertile soil with a large water-holding capacity and a clayey, sometimes poorly draining subsoil. The chailles and the gravel make the profile locally stonier and better drained; they are lime-free, but they do not determine the pH of the soil, which follows from the clayey-loamy matrix, so chlorosis pressure has to be measured plot by plot. A flat position means cold air, frost risk and little natural drainage.
Lies at the foot of the Côte and in the plain towards the Saône, where mainly the regional appellations are found.
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: Fx.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:28
above the hill
19:30
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 07:28 above the hill and disappears at 19:30 behind the hill: 12.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 5.8° above the horizon to the north-northeast.
| Irradiation | −1.0% versus flat land 1,065 kWh/m² from April to October, 41% 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 | 99.7% 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, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:14 | 21:15 | 15.0 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:28 | 19:30 | 12.0 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:33 | 16:38 | 8.1 h | 8.6 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), 24% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
16 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
little inflow
1.5 ha flows past
| Cold air | 16 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 1.5 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.12 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NNE-SSW
diagonal to the slope
1.30 m
between the rows
| Rows | NNE-SSW (20°) diagonal to the slope (31°), every 1.30 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.6 of 1.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 8.8 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 15.4 °C, 1991-2020: 17.1 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,718, 1991-2020: 2,022
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 96, 1991-2020: day 85
series homogenised through 2022
Who owns land here
5.03 ha of 5.03 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- DOMAINE DU CHAPITRE100%
- 5.03 ha DOMAINE DU CHAPITRE SCEA · wine business
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
- Vignes des Pierres Regional · 350 m
- En Bourchanin Regional · 500 m
- La Bouvarde Regional · 500 m
- Les Prénardières Regional · 600 m
- Bois de Loise Regional · 650 m
- Au Molard Regional · 700 m
- Grand Clos de Loise Regional · 700 m
- Le Grand Clos de Loise Regional · 1.0 km
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.