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Lieu-dit · Nuits-Saint-Georges

Lès Saints-Georges

Lès Saints-Georges is a lieu-dit in Nuits-Saint-Georges, Côte de Nuits, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Les Saints-Georges.

7.47 ha

delimited

250 m

elevation

11.0 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelPremier Cruinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
Official cruLes Saints-Georges
VillageNuits-Saint-Georges
RegionCôte de Nuits, Burgundy
Delimited7.47 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted7.41 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels15
Grape varietypinot 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)
Organic30%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 24 named plots ranked premier cru in Nuits-Saint-Georges, from high to low:

sun at harvest 9
elevation 24
slope 18
on the slope 15

Position

250 m

elevation

8.6%

firm

ESE

east-southeast

mid-slope

concave fold

Elevation250 m 241 to 262 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.32 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 291 m, ± 0.04 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope8.6% 4.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 109°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope21% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 404 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

  • 100%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–⁠0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)

In the glass. Wines from this substrate are often described as finer in structure. In so far as that holds, it is due to the stony, free-draining profile that curbs vigour, not to the rubble itself.

Slope scree that formed in the last ice age when the limestone cliffs above the vineyard broke apart through repeated freezing and thawing, mixed with material washed down from higher up later on. It is not a rock but a blanket of limestone rubble, gravel and sand in a silty, lime-rich matrix, often arranged in distinct layers on the slope. Roughly 115,000 to 12,000 years old, and the composition depends entirely on which rock outcrops higher up the slope.

For the vine. For the vine this is often a favourable profile: deeper than above a hard limestone slab, well drained, stony and poor in clay. Water drains away quickly, which is an advantage in a wet summer and a risk in a dry one, unless the blanket is thick enough. The material is prone to erosion and only works on a slope; at the bottom, where the deposit becomes thick and finer, it soon turns too fertile.

On the Côte de Nuits this scree locally forms the mantle over the Comblanchien, among other places in the scree fans at the mouths of the combes, and around Morey-Saint-Denis and Marsannay. Whether individual climats such as Monts Luisants lie on it must be read from the map layer itself.

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: GP.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:26

above the flat horizon

18:27

behind the hill

11.0 h

sun at harvest

0.8 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 07:26 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:27 behind the hill: 11.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 13.2° above the horizon to the west.

Irradiation+0.3% versus flat land 1,049 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 (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026) · jrc-pvgis-sarah3 (10 September 2026)
Open sky99.5% of the sky the slope itself sees; the surrounding relief blocks the restign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)
Three reference days and the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June05:4620:1114.4 h15.9 h
20 September07:2618:2711.0 h12.3 h
21 December08:2516:027.6 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), 47% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (not in this commune) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

14 m

above the lowest point

drains away

cold air

a gully

5.8 ha flows past

Cold air14 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through5.8 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.69 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ESE-WNW

down the slope

1.02 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsESE-WNW (109°) down the slope (0°), every 1.02 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 7.4 of 7.4 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100%assessed over 7.5 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202014°16°18°

station DIJON-LONGVIC, 219 m, 17.6 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.7 °C, 1991-2020: 16.2 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,677, 1991-2020: 1,881

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 100, 1991-2020: day 100

series homogenised through 2022

The name

After Saint George, patron of a church or priory that owned ground here. The village of Nuits added the name to its own in 1892. Sylvain Pitiot en Marie-Hélène Landrieu-Lussigny, Climats et lieux-dits des grands vignobles de Bourgogne (2025)

saint
a saint, usually the patron of the church or of the order that owned the ground. Clos Saint-Jean and Clos Saint-Denis carry their owner in their name. 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

5.31 ha of 7.47 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • GFA DOMAINE XAVIER LIGER BELAIR27%
  • DOMAINE HENRI GOUGES15%
  • HOSPICES CIVILS DE BEAUNE13%
  • GFA DOMAINE AUDIDIER MAITROT8%
  • CONSORTIUM VITICOLE VINICOLE BOURGOGNE3%
  • 2 other legal entities5%
  • private individuals or unknown29%

Private individuals or unknown: 2.17 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.