Lieu-dit · Lignorelles
Les Chasserottes
Les Chasserottes is a lieu-dit in Lignorelles, Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.
5.40 ha
delimited
192 m
elevation
11.8 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Village 57% Regional 43%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Lignorelles |
| Region | Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 5.40 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 5.31 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 21 |
| Grape variety | chardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 4%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 15 named plots ranked village in Lignorelles, from high to low:
Position
192 m
elevation
6.6%
firm
ENE
east-northeast
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 192 m 179 to 199 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.05 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 205 m, ± 0.02 °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 | 6.6% 3.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-northeast 78°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 60% upper slope, on an even plane, 233 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 29%Lower Barremian shelly limestone and oyster marl about 129–127 million years
- 20%Hauterivian limestone with Spatangus about 132–129 million years
- 51%Barrois limestone and underlying Kimmeridgian beds (j7b to j9) about 155–143 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards taut, linear, early-approachable white wine with less mid-palate than the marl slopes below. Petit Chablis is the textbook example, but how much of that is down to the rock and how much to the flat position and the cooler air has not been settled.
A composite map code running from the Lower Kimmeridgian into the Portlandian, with at the top the hard, dense Barrois limestone, deposited in a shallow, increasingly enclosed sea as the Paris Basin dried out. In the soil it is compact rock that breaks into angular slabs; because it resists erosion well, it forms the flat plateaus above the vineyard slopes. Roughly 155 to 143 million years old, because this code lumps the Kimmeridgian and the Portlandian together.
For the vine. The soil on top is generally shallow and very stony, with free drainage and a small water reserve, so the vine comes under stress here sooner than on the marls lower down the slope. The active lime content is high, so the chlorosis risk is real and the choice of rootstock matters. On the flat plateau the advantage of the slope is absent: the altitude and the open exposure make it cooler, and without slope cold air does not drain away on clear nights, so budburst and ripening come later than on the flank.
Characteristic of the plateaus around Chablis, where most of Petit Chablis lies, and of the uplands of the Tonnerrois and the Châtillonnais.
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: j7b-j9, n4a, n3.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:34
above the hill
19:20
behind the hill
11.8 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:34 above the hill and disappears at 19:20 behind the hill: 11.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 4.4° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | −0.6% versus flat land 1,008 kWh/m² from April to October, 46% 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) |
|---|
Three reference days, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:48 | 21:21 | 15.6 h | 16.0 h |
| 20 September | 07:34 | 19:20 | 11.8 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:38 | 16:28 | 7.8 h | 8.4 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), 32% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
47 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
0.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 47 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 0.8 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.13 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
1.18 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (51°) down the slope (27°), every 1.18 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 5.0 of 5.3 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 4.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHABLIS_SAPC, 141 m, 6.3 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
Who owns land here
1.58 ha of 5.40 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- DE LA CHILOUNE28%
- COMMUNE DE LIGNORELLES1%
- DES VARENNES<1%
- private individuals or unknown71%
- 1.52 ha DE LA CHILOUNE GFA · land company
- 0.05 ha COMMUNE DE LIGNORELLES COM · public
- 0.02 ha DES VARENNES AUPM · other
Private individuals or unknown: 3.81 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
- Vallée Veron Village · 150 m
- Crosot Village · 150 m
- Les Priaux Regional · 250 m
- La Cave Regional · 250 m
- Les Grandes Vignes Regional · 300 m
- Ronsien Village · 300 m
- Les Pargues Regional · 300 m
- Grosses Terres Village · 350 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.