Lieu-dit · Meursault
Au Village
Au Village is a lieu-dit in Meursault, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
30.9 ha
delimited
234 m
elevation
11.3 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Regional 51% Village 49%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Meursault |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 30.9 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 21.6 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 163 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay also permitted: pinot blanc, aligoté, melon, sacyinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 19%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 52 named plots ranked regional in Meursault, from high to low:
Position
234 m
elevation
2.3%
gentle
ESE
east-southeast
foot
even slope
| Elevation | 234 m 226 to 247 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.10 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 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 | 2.3% 1.3°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 115°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 15% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 266 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 49%Modern alluvium of the rivers 0.012–0 million years
- 3%Colluvium, mixed slope deposit about 0.1–0 million years
- 8%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
- 20%Fluvio-lacustrine marl of Saint-Cosme about 2.6–1.8 million years (Plio-Pleistoceen, regional division, not precisely dated)
- 19%Bathonian limestone (Comblanchien and Nod) 168–165 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. As a rule yields simple, supple wine. This substrate says little on its own and is rarely regarded in Burgundy as a carrier of quality. (weak indication)
The youngest river deposits, from the Holocene to the present day, so roughly the last twelve thousand years. Sand, silt, clay and gravel in the active floodplain, still in motion at high water. Variable from place to place, because every bend of the river deposits something different.
For the vine. Even flatter, wetter and younger than Fy, with a water table that can stay close beneath the surface. Water is never the problem here, vigour and late ripening are, and frost sensitivity in April is high. Only where the deposit is gravelly enough is drainage acceptable.
Along the Saône and the streams that run out of the combes into the plain, outside the hillside 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: Fz, Fu, j3, GP, C.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:49
above the hill
19:04
behind the hill
11.3 h
sun at harvest
0.9 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:49 above the hill and disappears at 19:04 behind the hill: 11.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.5° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | +0.1% versus flat land 1,049 kWh/m² from April to October, 43% 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 | 99.4% 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, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:15 | 21:04 | 14.8 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:49 | 19:04 | 11.3 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:54 | 16:21 | 7.5 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), 32% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
5 m
above the lowest point
comes close
cold air
a main drain
3,106.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 5 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 3,106.8 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 55.79 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.02 m
between the rows
64%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (113°) down the slope (2°), every 1.02 m, varies by plotmeasured over 20.3 of 21.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 64% abandoned since: 3.46 ha, planted since: 9.19 haassessed over 28.3 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 7.7 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
- village
- the village itself. Le Village is almost always the ground bordering the houses. Shape and position · 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
16.2 ha of 30.9 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- SOCIETE DE GESTION DU DOMAINE DU CHATEAU DE MEURSAULT27%
- CHATEAU DE CITEAUX6%
- SOC CIV EXPL PIERRE MATROT3%
- MICHEL BOUZEREAU ET FILS3%
- SCEA SANGLIER2%
- 25 other legal entities11%
- private individuals or unknown48%
- 8.28 ha SOCIETE DE GESTION DU DOMAINE DU CHATEAU DE MEURSAULT SNC · wine business
- 1.70 ha CHATEAU DE CITEAUX GFA · land company
- 1.07 ha GFA DU DOMAINE PIERRE MATROT GFA · land company
- 0.75 ha LE MOULIN JUDAS SCI · land company
- 0.63 ha SCEA SANGLIER SC · land company
- 0.60 ha GFA DOMAINE DELAGRANGE ET BATTAULT GFA · land company
- 0.51 ha EDALFAUST SAS · other
- 0.31 ha MICHEL BOUZEREAU ET FILS SCEA · wine business
- 0.24 ha SCI DOM JOBARD DRAIN SCI · land company
- 0.23 ha SCEV DOMAINE DU CHATEAU DE MEURSAULT SC · land company · organic
- 0.21 ha HERITIERS THIERRY ET PASCALE MATROT SC · land company
- 0.21 ha GFA MARTIN BONGRAND BIDAULT GFA · land company
Show 18 more
- 0.21 ha SC LA CROIX DU SUD AUPM · other
- 0.21 ha GFA DU DOMAINE DES COMTES LAFON GFA · land company
- 0.20 ha COMMUNE DE MEURSAULT COM · public
- 0.19 ha CCGVA SCI · land company · other right 0.01 ha
- 0.14 ha GP SAS · other
- 0.08 ha MJ CAVES SCI · land company
- 0.08 ha SC ACC SCI · land company
- 0.06 ha DOMAINE DU LIAS SCEA · wine business
- 0.06 ha DE LA CROIX DU SUD SCI · land company
- 0.05 ha GFA DES GOUTTES D OR GFA · land company
- 0.04 ha SCI PATERNE SCI · land company
- 0.04 ha LES VIGNES D'OR SCI · land company
- 0.04 ha DOMAINE MARC ROUGEOT SARL · wine business · organic
- 0.02 ha DES CAVES DE LA BARRADE SCI · land company
- 0.01 ha LES DEUX MONGE SCI · land company
- 0.01 ha SCEV DOMAINE DU CHATEAU BLEU SCEA · wine business · emphyteusis
- 0.01 ha CVBB SCI · land company
- 0.01 ha PHILIPPE BOUZEREAU SAS · other · other right
Private individuals or unknown: 14.7 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
- Clos de la Barre Village · 200 m
- En l'Ormeau Village · 350 m
- Les Herbeux Regional · 350 m
- En la Barre Village · 400 m
- Le Meix sous le Château Village · 450 m
- La Barre-Dessus Village · 550 m
- Les Malpoiriers Village · 550 m
- Au Moulin Landin Village · 550 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.