Lieu-dit · La Roche-Vineuse
La Rupille
La Rupille is a lieu-dit in La Roche-Vineuse, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
2.21 ha
delimited
245 m
elevation
10.7 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 Roche-Vineuse |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 2.21 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.80 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 6 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir / chardonnay also permitted: pinot blanc, pinot gris, césar, gamayinao-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 68 named plots ranked regional in La Roche-Vineuse, from high to low:
Position
245 m
elevation
17.2%
steep
WSW
west-southwest
foot
convex ridge
| Elevation | 245 m 236 to 258 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.36 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 295 m, ± 0.04 °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 | 17.2% 9.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | west-southwest 249°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 14% foot of the slope, on a convex ridge, 194 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Old river terraces, gravel and sand Midden- tot Laat-Pleistoceen, niet gedateerd
In the glass. Tends towards supple, early-drinking wine with limited concentration. The stone content and the thickness of the clay layer in the plot make more difference than the label alluvium suggests. (weak indication)
Gravel, sand and rounded pebbles that the rivers left behind on low to middle terraces in the Pleistocene, usually topped by a few decimetres of brown or red-brown clay. The pebbles are largely limestone, alongside material from the crystalline and siliciclastic hinterland; the mixing ratio depends on the catchment. The terraces lie as flat steps above the present valley and cannot be dated precisely; the low terraces are younger than the middle ones.
For the vine. Gravel-rich and very well drained, and often slightly warmer than the surrounding plain, primarily because of the better drainage, the drier topsoil and the slightly higher position above the valley. The downside is drought sensitivity as soon as the clay layer on top is thin; where that layer thickens, the profile is heavier and cooler instead. Lime-rich gravel means a moderate to high active lime content, and the flat position makes the plot prone to frost.
Forms the terraces along the Saône, the Dheune and the Ouche, largely under the regional appellations.
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-y.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:31
above the hill
19:10
behind the hill
10.7 h
sun at harvest
0.8 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 08:31 above the hill and disappears at 19:10 behind the hill: 10.7 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 15.7° above the horizon to the east-northeast.
| Irradiation | +0.4% versus flat land 1,069 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 | 98.4% 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 | 07:34 | 21:04 | 13.5 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 08:31 | 19:10 | 10.7 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:28 | 16:24 | 6.9 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), 36% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
18 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a combe
33.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 18 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 33.8 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 2.45 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
E-W
down the slope
1.30 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | E-W (87°) down the slope (18°), every 1.30 m, varies by plotmeasured over 1.8 of 1.8 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 0.13 ha, rows then ran 84° differentlyassessed over 1.6 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 7.2 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
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- Aux Vignerées Regional · 150 m
- Les Pommerats Regional · 250 m
- Grand Champ Regional · 300 m
- La Combe de Vaux Regional · 300 m
- A la Charme Regional · 350 m
- Les Morlionnes Regional · 350 m
- Montessu Regional · 450 m
- Au Clos Regional · 500 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.