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Lieu-dit · Lugny

Pré Vallerot

Pré Vallerot is a lieu-dit in Lugny, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.

1.93 ha

delimited

221 m

elevation

11.9 h

sun at harvest

Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.

In figures

LevelRegionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageLugny
RegionMâconnais, Burgundy
Delimited1.93 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted1.71 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels5
Grape varietypinot noir, gamay also permitted: chardonnay, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 39 named plots ranked regional in Lugny, from high to low:

sun at harvest 3
elevation 36
slope 16
on the slope 37

Position

221 m

elevation

10.3%

firm

SSE

south-southeast

foot

concave fold

Elevation221 m 217 to 229 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.27 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 258 m, ± 0.03 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope10.3% 5.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectsouth-southeast 165°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope12% foot of the slope, in a concave hollow, 384 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

  • 100%Bresse Formation, marly clay and silt about 3.5–⁠1 million years (Plio-Pleistoceen)

In the glass. Tends towards simple, soft wines. This substrate carries mainly regional appellations and Gamay; the better plots lie higher up on the Jurassic limestone. (weak indication)

Marl, clay, silt and sometimes calcareous sand with lignite-bearing layers and local lime concretions, deposited in the Bresse graben in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene. It is the fine-grained variant of the Bresse fill; p-IVB6 is the sandy counterpart. Lies on the plain and the low ridges east of the Mâconnais and the Côte Chalonnaise.

For the vine. Heavy and wet: a lot of clay, few stones, slow to warm and with a risk of standing water. The lime content varies; where it is calcareous, chlorosis comes into play. Suitable for the vine only on gentle slopes and with drainage.

Mâconnais and Chalonnais edge: Lugny, Chardonnay, Montbellet, Péronne, Boyer, Ozenay, Lacrost, Saint-Maurice-de-Satonnay, Mercurey and Mellecey (lower parts).

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: p-IVB5.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:27

above the hill

19:19

behind the hill

11.9 h

sun at harvest

Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:27 above the hill and disappears at 19:19 behind the hill: 11.9 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 7.9° above the horizon to the north.

Irradiation+2.5% 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 sky99.2% 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
risesetsunday
21 June06:0321:0014.9 h15.8 h
20 September07:2719:1911.9 h12.3 h
21 December08:5316:297.6 h8.6 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), 38% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

13 m

above the lowest point

drains away

cold air

a combe

10.3 ha flows past

Cold air13 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through10.3 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.68 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

SSE-NNW

down the slope

1.38 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsSSE-NNW (168°) down the slope (2°), every 1.38 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.7 of 1.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100%assessed over 1.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202014°16°18°20°

station MACON, 219 m, 21.2 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

pre
meadow. Ground that carried grass before the vines came, or lay beside them. Vegetation · 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

0.55 ha of 1.93 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • GFA DE TANSILLY28%
  • private individuals or unknown72%

Private individuals or unknown: 1.38 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

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.