Lieu-dit · Mercurey
Vignes des Champs
Vignes des Champs is a lieu-dit in Mercurey, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
4.47 ha
delimited
231 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 | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Mercurey |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 4.47 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.39 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 18 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot blanc, pinot gris, aligoté, melon, sacy also permitted: 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 22 named plots ranked regional in Mercurey, from high to low:
Position
231 m
elevation
4.0%
gentle
SSE
south-southeast
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 231 m 225 to 240 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.29 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 268 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) |
| Slope | 4.0% 2.3°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | south-southeast 148°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 24% mid slope, on an even plane, 277 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 50%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
- 50%Nantoux limestone and Mercurey marl 157–155 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Wines from this substrate are often described as finer in structure. In so far as that holds, it is due to the stony, free-draining profile that curbs vigour, not to the rubble itself.
Slope scree that formed in the last ice age when the limestone cliffs above the vineyard broke apart through repeated freezing and thawing, mixed with material washed down from higher up later on. It is not a rock but a blanket of limestone rubble, gravel and sand in a silty, lime-rich matrix, often arranged in distinct layers on the slope. Roughly 115,000 to 12,000 years old, and the composition depends entirely on which rock outcrops higher up the slope.
For the vine. For the vine this is often a favourable profile: deeper than above a hard limestone slab, well drained, stony and poor in clay. Water drains away quickly, which is an advantage in a wet summer and a risk in a dry one, unless the blanket is thick enough. The material is prone to erosion and only works on a slope; at the bottom, where the deposit becomes thick and finer, it soon turns too fertile.
On the Côte de Nuits this scree locally forms the mantle over the Comblanchien, among other places in the scree fans at the mouths of the combes, and around Morey-Saint-Denis and Marsannay. Whether individual climats such as Monts Luisants lie on it must be read from the map layer itself.
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: GP, j5c.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:27
above the flat horizon
19:18
behind the hill
11.8 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 flat horizon and disappears at 19:18 behind the hill: 11.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 4.1° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | +0.9% versus flat land 1,065 kWh/m² from April to October, 42% 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:56 | 21:12 | 15.3 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:27 | 19:18 | 11.8 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:42 | 8.3 h | 8.5 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), 33% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
10 m
above the lowest point
comes close
cold air
a gully
5.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 10 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 5.8 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.22 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SE-NW
down the slope
1.02 m
between the rows
98%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SE-NW (128°) down the slope (20°), every 1.02 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 3.4 of 3.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 98% abandoned since: 0.48 haassessed over 4.2 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 13.7 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.1 °C, 1991-2020: 15.2 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,528, 1991-2020: 1,726
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 115, 1991-2020: day 108
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
The name
- vigne
- vineyard, the ordinary word for planted ground. The most common element in this atlas, usually descriptive rather than distinguishing. Viticulture · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- champ
- field, from Latin campus. The third most common element in this atlas and usually descriptive: open arable land, often predating the vines. Work and use · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
2.22 ha of 4.47 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFV LE CLOS23%
- DOMAINE PAGNOTTA20%
- COMMUNE DE MERCUREY6%
- ASSOCIATION FONCIERE DE MERCUREY1%
- private individuals or unknown50%
- 0.92 ha DOMAINE PAGNOTTA SCEA · wine business
- 0.58 ha GFV LE CLOS GFA · land company
- 0.43 ha GFV MAJALICE SC · land company
- 0.25 ha COMMUNE DE MERCUREY COM · public
- 0.04 ha ASSOCIATION FONCIERE DE MERCUREY AFR · other
Private individuals or unknown: 2.25 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
- Lès Grandes Vignes Regional · 100 m
- Champ de Perdrix Regional · 250 m
- Champ Renard Regional · 300 m
- Champ Ladoy Village · 350 m
- Lès Longues Royes Regional · 350 m
- La Maladiere Village · 350 m
- Champ Roin Village · 450 m
- La Rue aux Porcs Regional · 450 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.