Lieu-dit · La Roche-Vineuse
Les Moulins
Les Moulins is a lieu-dit in La Roche-Vineuse, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
3.18 ha
delimited
231 m
elevation
11.4 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 | 3.18 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.06 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 1 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay also permitted: aligoté, pinot blanc, pinot gris, melon, sacyinao-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
231 m
elevation
13.6%
steep
SW
southwest
foot
even slope
| Elevation | 231 m 220 to 250 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.47 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 295 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 | 13.6% 7.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southwest 222°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 12% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 149 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 20%Sinemurian limestone with gryphaea 199.5–193 million years
- 81%Triassic to Hettangian, undifferentiated about 235–199 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards fuller, somewhat firmer wines with more body than tension, provided the drainage is right. Because it is a mixture of three formations, this code says little about style in itself. (weak indication)
A catch-all on the map: clayey Triassic, Rhaetian and Hettangian have not been separated here. It comprises variegated clay and marl from a dry coastal plain, above that Rhaetian sandstone from when the sea returned, and finally thin limestone and marl from the first Jurassic sea. In the ground you see mainly clay with sandy layers and a few thin hard beds, roughly 235 to 199 million years old.
For the vine. Clay dominates, so the water buffer is in principle large, although heavy clay can crack in persistent drought and hold water so tightly that the vine can no longer get at it. The downside is a cold, wet start in spring and slow drainage on flat terrain, so that slope and drainage decide everything here. The lime content varies widely within the same unit, from virtually lime-free clay to marl with active lime, so the chlorosis risk differs from plot to plot.
Among other places at the foot of the slope in the Côte Chalonnaise around Buxy and Montagny, and in the valleys of the Mâconnais where the Jurassic limestone ends against the old massif.
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: tA-l1, l2.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:58
above the hill
19:22
behind the hill
11.4 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:58 above the hill and disappears at 19:22 behind the hill: 11.4 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 9.3° above the horizon to the east-northeast.
| Irradiation | +2.2% versus flat land 1,088 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 | 99.1% 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 | 06:50 | 21:07 | 14.3 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:58 | 19:22 | 11.4 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:29 | 16:16 | 7.8 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
15 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a combe
13.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 15 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 13.2 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.49 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
1.25 m
between the rows
| Rows | NE-SW (53°) down the slope (11°), every 1.25 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 3.1 of 3.1 ha plantedign-bdortho (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
The name
- moulin
- mill, usually a watermill on a brook or a windmill on a ridge. 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
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
- Les Ronzettes Regional · 250 m
- Grand Marancey Regional · 300 m
- Petit Marancey Regional · 350 m
- Moulin Préaud Regional · 400 m
- Les Chanaux Regional · 450 m
- Bois Joyaux Regional · 450 m
- Aux Patennes Regional · 500 m
- La Grollière 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.