Lieu-dit · Montagny-lès-Buxy
Mont-Cuchot
Mont-Cuchot is a lieu-dit in Montagny-lès-Buxy, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Montcuchot.
9.06 ha
delimited
294 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 | Premier Cru 98% Village 2%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Montcuchot |
| Village | Montagny-lès-Buxy |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 9.06 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 8.48 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 51 |
| Grape variety | chardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 13%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 32 named plots ranked premier cru in Montagny-lès-Buxy, from high to low:
Position
294 m
elevation
17.2%
steep
SE
southeast
mid-slope
convex ridge
| Elevation | 294 m 270 to 322 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.15 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 313 m, ± 0.03 °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 | 17.2% 9.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 135°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 37% mid slope, on a convex ridge, 146 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 4%Aalenian iron oolite and marl 175–171 million years
- 7%Toarcian marl and clay 184–175 million years
- 3%Sinemurian limestone with Gryphaea 199–187 million years
- 67%Rhaetian to earliest Jurassic: sandstone, clay and shelly limestone about 208–200 million years
- 19%Variegated Triassic clay with gypsum 237–201 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. On sandy soils, fragrant wines with fine tannin and less weight are often made, usually via lower vigour and earlier ripening rather than directly from the sand. It is a tendency, not a rule, and a thicker clay layer can overturn the picture completely.
The transition from Triassic to Jurassic, roughly 208 to 200 million years ago, when rivers spread pale quartz sand over clay on a flat coast; the top of the package continues into the lowest Jurassic, the Hettangian. When the sea returned, a shell bank formed on top, the lumachelle with the bivalve Cardinia. In the ground this yields yellow to red-brown sand, tough clay layers and hard sandstone slabs, with little lime.
For the vine. Light, permeable and quick to warm up, so an early soil in which the roots can go deep. The sand retains little water, but the clay layers beneath often form the reserve that carries the vine through the summer. Lime is scarce, so chlorosis is hardly an issue; erosion on the steeper parts, on the other hand, is a point of attention.
Characteristic of the Couchois and of the western edge of the southern Mâconnais, where the Triassic comes to the surface between granite and Jurassic, among other places near Chasselas, Leynes and Saint-Vérand.
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: t7-l1, tA, l4, j1, l2-l3a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:27
above the flat horizon
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 07:27 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:51 behind the hill: 11.4 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 11.7° above the horizon to the northwest.
| Irradiation | +2.6% versus flat land 1,084 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) |
|---|---|
| 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:54 | 20:26 | 14.5 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:27 | 18:51 | 11.4 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:12 | 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), 27% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
33 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
2.1 ha flows past
| Cold air | 33 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 2.1 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.18 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SSE-NNW
down the slope
1.08 m
between the rows
78%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SSE-NNW (147°) down the slope (12°), every 1.08 m, varies by plotmeasured over 7.4 of 8.5 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 78% abandoned since: 0.09 ha, planted since: 1.64 ha, rows then ran 36° differentlyassessed over 7.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 17.3 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 13.5 °C, 1991-2020: 15.1 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,248, 1991-2020: 1,553
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 107, 1991-2020: day 101
series homogenised through 2022
The name
- mont
- hill or mountain. In Champagne the Montagne is a wooded plateau edge, not a mountain. Relief · Gérard Taverdet, Noms de lieux de Bourgogne (2007)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
0.99 ha of 9.06 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFA LES MARAIS6%
- DOMAINE FEUILLAT-JUILLOT4%
- private individuals or unknown89%
- 0.58 ha GFA LES MARAIS AUPM · other · bare ownership 0.41 ha
- 0.41 ha GFA DES GRAPPES D OR GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 8.07 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
- Vigne du Soleil Premier Cru · 250 m
- Lès Treuffères Premier Cru · 300 m
- Lès Bouchots Premier Cru · 300 m
- Lès Burnins Premier Cru · 350 m
- Lès Thilles Village · 400 m
- Vigne Devant Village · 400 m
- Moulin l'Echenaud Village · 450 m
- Lès Marais Village · 450 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.