Lieu-dit · Meursault
Les Chaumes des Perrières
Les Chaumes des Perrières is a lieu-dit in Meursault, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village. It lies within the official cru Genevrières.
0.80 ha
delimited
314 m
elevation
11.1 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Village 53% Premier Cru 38% Regional 9%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Genevrières |
| Village | Meursault |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 0.80 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.73 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 16 |
| 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 | 47%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 54 named plots ranked village in Meursault, from high to low:
Position
314 m
elevation
17.8%
steep
ESE
east-southeast
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 314 m 307 to 319 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.37 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 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 | 17.8% 10.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 116°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 33% mid slope, on an even plane, 222 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 55%Calcaire de Tonnerre, Upper Oxfordian to Lower Kimmeridgian about 157–152 million years
- 25%White oolite of the Bathonian 167–165 million years
- 11%Bathonian limestone (Comblanchien and Nod) 168–165 million years
- 9%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–166 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. This limestone slab itself rarely carries vineyard. Where it does, the profile is meagre and strongly vintage-dependent; no flavour profile of its own can be attached to it.
Hard, beige, fine-grained limestone beds: the Calcaire de Tonnerre, the Calcaire d'Oisellemont and the limestone with Astarte shells. The Calcaire de Tonnerre belongs to the Upper Oxfordian, the limestone with Astarte to the Lower Kimmeridgian; the unit therefore straddles the stage boundary. The sequence is locally several tens of metres thick, for the Calcaire de Tonnerre alone a figure of about fifty metres is quoted, and it forms cuestas and plateau edges above the marl slopes.
For the vine. A compact limestone slab with usually a thin, very stony soil on top, where water sinks away immediately and the reserve is small. Roots have to follow fissures, and where the slab reaches the surface the site is truly meagre. The active lime content is high, and without a blanket of weathered material or colluvium this substrate is marginal for the vine.
Forms the plateau edges of the Tonnerrois and the Châtillonnais, above the Kimmeridgian marls on which the vineyard itself usually lies.
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: j6a, j3O, j3, j3a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:26
above the flat horizon
18:31
behind the hill
11.1 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:26 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:31 behind the hill: 11.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.9° above the horizon to the west-northwest.
| Irradiation | +1.3% versus flat land 1,061 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) |
|---|---|
| Open sky | 99.8% 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 | 05:53 | 19:59 | 14.1 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:26 | 18:31 | 11.1 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:14 | 7.8 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
46 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
8.1 ha flows past
| Cold air | 46 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 8.1 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.51 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.02 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (118°) down the slope (2°), every 1.02 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.7 of 0.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 0.3 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
The quarry: perrière is the old word for a place where stone was broken. Roserot gives Perrière entries in several communes, each with its own history, and for Meursault the name alone does not say which quarry it was or from when. Alphonse Roserot, Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Côte-d'Or (1924)
- chaume
- fallow, bare ground, from Latin calmis. Not stubble field as in modern French. Vegetation · Association des Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne, Les noms des Climats (2026)
- perriere
- quarry or stony ground, from pierre. In Burgundy usually a former quarry; at Dijon Roserot simply notes the town's old quarries. Soil and stone · Alphonse Roserot, Dictionnaire topographique du département de la Côte-d'Or (1924)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
0.66 ha of 0.80 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFA PIERRE LATOUR ET SES ENFANTS38%
- COMMUNE DE MEURSAULT36%
- SC DOMAINE D AUVENAY9%
- private individuals or unknown17%
- 0.30 ha GFA PIERRE LATOUR ET SES ENFANTS GFA · land company
- 0.28 ha COMMUNE DE MEURSAULT COM · public
- 0.07 ha SC DOMAINE D AUVENAY SC · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 0.14 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
- Les Chaumes Village · 100 m
- Le Dos d'Âne Regional · 150 m
- Aux Perrières Premier Cru · 250 m
- Les Narvaux-Dessus Village · 250 m
- Les Perrières-Dessous Premier Cru · 400 m
- Les Perrières-Dessus Premier Cru · 450 m
- Les Narvaux-Dessous Village · 450 m
- Les Genevrières-Dessus Premier Cru · 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.