Lieu-dit · Meursault
Les Terres Blanches
Les Terres Blanches is a lieu-dit in Meursault, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.
1.76 ha
delimited
239 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
| Level | Villageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Meursault |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 1.76 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.69 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 5 |
| 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 | 57%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
239 m
elevation
4.6%
gentle
SE
southeast
foot
convex ridge
| Elevation | 239 m 236 to 243 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.08 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 m, ± 0.01 °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 | 4.6% 2.6°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 136°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 10% foot of the slope, on a convex ridge, 262 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 49%Made ground and disturbed soil recent, hooguit enkele eeuwen
- 8%Colluvium, mixed slope deposit about 0.1–0 million years
- 43%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Says nothing about the wine in itself. Anyone wanting to understand anything here should look at the adjacent natural rock and at the soil in the parcel itself. (weak indication)
Not a natural formation but ground moved by people: embankments, old quarries with their spoil, earthworks along roads, levelled and re-laid parcels. It is at most a few centuries old and often only a few decades. What it contains depends entirely on what was brought in, from clean limestone rubble to mixed construction soil with foreign material.
For the vine. Nothing general can be said about it. Permeability, depth and lime content vary from parcel to parcel and sometimes within a single parcel, and compaction by machinery is a common problem. For the map this code mainly means that the natural subsoil here has been disturbed or covered over.
Scattered along roads, near old quarries and on re-laid parcels throughout the wine region.
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: X, GP, C.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:28
above the hill
18:54
behind the hill
11.4 h
sun at harvest
0.7 h
lost to the hill
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 18:54 behind the hill: 11.4 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.4° above the horizon to the west.
| Irradiation | +0.8% versus flat land 1,056 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 | 99.7% 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:57 | 20:48 | 14.8 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:28 | 18:54 | 11.4 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:23 | 8.0 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
8 m
above the lowest point
comes close
cold air
a gully
8.1 ha flows past
| Cold air | 8 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 8.1 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.44 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.04 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (110°) down the slope (27°), every 1.04 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.7 of 1.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 1.8 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
- terre
- soil, almost always with a colour or quality attached: Terres Rouges, Fortes Terres. Soil and stone · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- blanc
- white, almost always about the colour of the soil or of the rock coming through. Soil and stone · 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
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- Les Pelles-Dessus Village · 100 m
- Les Gouttes d'Or Premier Cru · 150 m
- En Luraule Village · 200 m
- Clos de Mazeray Village · 300 m
- Le Porusot Premier Cru · 300 m
- Les Pelles-Dessous Village · 300 m
- Les Meix Gagnes Village · 300 m
- Les Crotots Village · 300 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.