Lieu-dit · Monthelie
Le Clos Gauthey
Le Clos Gauthey is a lieu-dit in Monthelie, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Le Clos Gauthey.
1.81 ha
delimited
296 m
elevation
11.5 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cruinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Le Clos Gauthey |
| Village | Monthelie |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 1.81 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.06 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 11 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir also permitted: chardonnay, 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 13 named plots ranked premier cru in Monthelie, from high to low:
Position
296 m
elevation
6.1%
firm
SW
southwest
mid-slope
convex ridge
| Elevation | 296 m 291 to 301 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.01 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 294 m, ± 0.00 °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 | 6.1% 3.5°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southwest 233°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 41% mid slope, on a convex ridge, 115 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 23%Oxfordian marl and clayey limestone 162–155 million years
- 77%Dalle nacrée, Bathonian to Callovian about 166.5–163 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards fragrant, somewhat leaner wine with bright acidity and fine tannin. The thin soil makes the result strongly vintage-dependent, more than the rock type itself explains.
A hard, cross-bedded shell-debris limestone that gleams like mother-of-pearl, hence the name dalle nacrée. It formed in agitated, shallow water with sandbanks of shell and bryozoan debris, locally with oolites and small coral lumps, at the end of the Bathonian and the start of the Callovian. The sequence is some twenty metres thick and breaks into slabs with pearly, ochre to rusty fracture surfaces.
For the vine. Hard, well-fissured limestone with a thin, stony soil on top, excellently drained, quick to warm and with little water reserve. The slabs are well fissured, so roots can get deeper than the thin profile suggests; whether that yields enough water in a dry summer depends mainly on the thickness of the weathered cover above. The active lime content is high, so chlorosis calls for attention.
Forms the hard bed high on the slope and on the plateau edge of the Côte; in the south of the Côte de Beaune, around Chassagne-Montrachet and Santenay, the Callovian reaches into the vineyard.
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: j4a, j5.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:45
above the hill
19:17
behind the hill
11.5 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:45 above the hill and disappears at 19:17 behind the hill: 11.5 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.0° above the horizon to the north-northwest.
| Irradiation | +0.8% versus flat land 1,046 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 | 99.5% 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 | 06:19 | 21:09 | 14.8 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:45 | 19:17 | 11.5 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:39 | 16:33 | 7.9 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), 33% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
30 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
1.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 30 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 1.9 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.09 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
0.99 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (48°) down the slope (5°), every 0.99 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.0 of 1.1 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 1.3 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 8.5 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
- clos
- an enclosed plot, walled or hedged. In Burgundy the wall often carries a monastic or seigneurial past; clou and cloux are the same root in diminutive form. Ownership and saints · Association des Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne, Les noms des Climats (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
- Le Château Gaillard Premier Cru · 100 m
- Le Cas Rougeot Premier Cru · 150 m
- La Taupine Premier Cru · 150 m
- Les Vignes Rondes Premier Cru · 150 m
- Le Meix Garnier Village · 200 m
- Le Meix Bataille Premier Cru · 200 m
- Les Toisières Village · 250 m
- Les Riottes Premier Cru · 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.