Lieu-dit · Meursault
Les Petits Champs
Les Petits Champs is a lieu-dit in Meursault, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
3.24 ha
delimited
220 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 | Meursault |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 3.24 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.11 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 45 |
| Grape variety | aligoté, chardonnay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot gris, gamay, pinot noir, césar also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-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 52 named plots ranked regional in Meursault, from high to low:
Position
220 m
elevation
1.7%
flat
E
east
mid-slope
convex ridge
| Elevation | 220 m 219 to 221 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.22 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 m, ± 0.03 °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 | 1.7% 1.0°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east 93°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 41% mid slope, on a convex ridge, 298 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Recent alluvium of the valley floors 0.12–0 million years
In the glass. Tends towards supple, easy wine without much tension, suited to early drinking. This is a position in the landscape rather than a terroir with a signature of its own. (weak indication)
River and stream deposits in the floor of the valleys: gravel, sand, silt and clay, sorted into layers by running water. The material was laid down during the last ice age, roughly the past 120,000 years; the youngest deposits fall under Fz. It is by definition a mixture, because the composition depends on what the river carried down from upstream.
For the vine. Deep, easily rooted and often with a high water table, so the vine has ample water and easily develops too much vigour. Cold air sinks to the valley floor, so the spring frost risk is higher there than further up the slope. The more gravelly the deposit, the better the drainage and the more usable the site.
Mainly on the flat valley floors and at the foot of the slopes, where predominantly regional appellations lie.
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: Fy.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:34
above the hill
19:20
behind the hill
11.8 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:34 above the hill and disappears at 19:20 behind the hill: 11.8 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 3.9° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | ±0.0% versus flat land 1,047 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) |
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Three reference days, the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:50 | 21:19 | 15.5 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:34 | 19:20 | 11.8 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:38 | 8.2 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
3 m
above the lowest point
pools here
cold air
a gully
2.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 3 m lowest spot nearby: cold air lingersign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 2.8 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.14 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 2.82 haassessed over 2.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
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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
- petit
- small, the counterpart of grand. Shape and position · 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
0.57 ha of 3.24 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE DE MEURSAULT13%
- SCI MILLOT - GARCIA5%
- private individuals or unknown82%
- 0.42 ha COMMUNE DE MEURSAULT COM · public
- 0.16 ha SCI MILLOT - GARCIA SCI · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 2.66 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 Petits Champs Lins Regional · 250 m
- Les Ronces Regional · 300 m
- Au Guet de Bize Regional · 350 m
- En Belle Rose Regional · 450 m
- Les Champs Lins Vieille Rompue Regional · 450 m
- Pré des Jolles Regional · 500 m
- En Lamponne Regional · 550 m
- Le Pontot-Dessous Regional · 600 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.