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Lieu-dit · Meursault

Les Perrières-Dessus

Les Perrières-Dessus is a lieu-dit in Meursault, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Perrières.

4.50 ha

delimited

288 m

elevation

11.4 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelPremier Cru 82%
Regional 18%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
Official cruPerrières
VillageMeursault
RegionCôte de Beaune, Burgundy
Delimited4.50 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted4.34 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels30
Grape varietychardonnay 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)
Organic68%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 23 named plots ranked premier cru in Meursault, from high to low:

sun at harvest 10
elevation 6
slope 1
on the slope 10

Position

288 m

elevation

21.0%

very steep

SE

southeast

mid-slope

even slope

Elevation288 m 266 to 308 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature−0.25 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 m, ± 0.05 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope21.0% 11.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectsoutheast 136°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope26% mid slope, on an even plane, 164 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 33%White oolite of the Bathonian 167–⁠165 million years
  • 50%Bathonian limestone (Comblanchien and Nod) 168–⁠165 million years
  • 17%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–⁠166 million years

Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.

In the glass. Tends towards taut, firmly built wine that develops slowly. That effect works mainly through soil depth and drought stress and not through a direct transfer from stone to glass.

Shell debris, lime gravel, ooids and oncoids, small knobbly algal balls, cemented into a hard limestone on a warm and shallow platform. This sequence includes the Pierre de Comblanchien from the quarries of the Côte de Nuits and the Pierre de Nod from the Châtillonnais. The Comblanchien recurs under more than one map code, depending on how the map sheet has subdivided the sequence; Bathonian, about 168 to 165 million years old.

For the vine. Hard rock of low porosity that gives a thin, distinctly stony soil with a small water reserve, in which roots follow joints and bedding rather than the stone itself. The stones warm quickly; how much reflected light and heat actually reaches the bunch depends on row orientation and canopy management. The active lime content is high, and on flat ground without a colluvial cover there is simply too little soil.

The quarries of Comblanchien and Corgoloin on the southern edge of the Côte de Nuits; the Pierre de Nod is named after Nod-sur-Seine in 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: j3, j3O, j3a.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:28

above the hill

18:51

behind the hill

11.4 h

sun at harvest

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:28 above the hill and disappears at 18:51 behind the hill: 11.4 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 14.6° above the horizon to the northwest.

Irradiation+3.0% versus flat land 1,079 kWh/m² from April to October, 41% 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
risesetsunday
21 June05:5620:1314.3 h15.9 h
20 September07:2818:5111.4 h12.3 h
21 December08:2516:268.0 h8.5 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.

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

Air and cold

31 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a gully

3.6 ha flows past

Cold air31 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through3.6 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.19 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

SE-NW

down the slope

1.01 m

between the rows

89%

vineyard in 1950

RowsSE-NW (143°) down the slope (7°), every 1.01 m, varies by plotmeasured over 3.8 of 4.3 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195089% planted since: 0.42 ha, rows then ran 89° differentlyassessed over 3.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°

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)

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)
dessus
above, higher than the thing named. Les Charmes-Dessus lies above Les Charmes-Dessous. 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

2.43 ha of 4.50 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • SOCIETE DE GESTION DU DOMAINE DU CHATEAU DE MEURSAULT43%
  • N C P4%
  • COCHE-DURY3%
  • GFA LES PERRIERES3%
  • SCE DOMAINE OPALE1%
  • 1 other legal entity<1%
  • private individuals or unknown46%

Private individuals or unknown: 2.07 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.