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Lieu-dit · Poilly-sur-Serein

Vallée Vau Delaire

Vallée Vau Delaire is a lieu-dit in Poilly-sur-Serein, Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.

8.33 ha

delimited

255 m

elevation

11.2 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelRegionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillagePoilly-sur-Serein
RegionChablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy
Delimited8.33 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted7.89 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels29
Grape varietychardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic15%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 16 named plots ranked regional in Poilly-sur-Serein, from high to low:

sun at harvest 13
elevation 14
slope 2
on the slope 13

Position

255 m

elevation

17.4%

steep

SW

southwest

upper

concave fold

Elevation255 m 229 to 272 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.05 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 264 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)
Slope17.4% 9.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectsouthwest 235°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope69% upper slope, in a concave hollow, 291 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

  • 98%Astarte limestone, Lower Kimmeridgian 155–⁠152 million years

In the glass. Associated in the trade with taut white wine with little opulence. The difference from the neighbouring lagoonal limestones is small and the cover layer above decides more than the rock beneath. (weak indication)

Beige, very fine-grained limestone consisting largely of hardened lime mud and containing few fossils, apart from a few beds packed with Astarte, a small burrowing bivalve. Deposited in a very shallow, well-sheltered lagoon on the warm platform, about 155 to 152 million years ago. This code and j6b are lithological variants within the same Lower Kimmeridgian level and not two successive ages.

For the vine. Fairly hard, regularly bedded rock that breaks up into flat slabs and yields a shallow, stony, fast-draining soil. It warms quickly and dries out quickly too, so the vine depends on how much fine material there is in the cover layer. Roots mainly follow the joints and the bedding, and the active lime content is high.

Outcrops on the slopes and plateau edges of the Tonnerrois and the Châtillonnais, usually beneath a cover of weathered material.

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: j7b.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

08:16

over the crest of the slope

19:30

behind the hill

11.2 h

sun at harvest

Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:16 over the crest of the slope and disappears at 19:30 behind the hill: 11.2 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 7.5° above the horizon to the north.

Irradiation+1.7% versus flat land 1,027 kWh/m² from April to October, 44% 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 sky99.0% 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
risesetsunday
21 June06:5721:1114.2 h16.0 h
20 September08:1619:3011.2 h12.3 h
21 December09:1316:437.5 h8.4 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), 30% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

32 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a combe

23.5 ha flows past

Cold air32 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through23.5 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.71 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

SSE-NNW

across the slope

1.04 m

between the rows

85%

vineyard in 1950

RowsSSE-NNW (152°) across the slope (83°), every 1.04 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 7.8 of 7.9 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195085% abandoned since: 0.27 ha, planted since: 1.09 haassessed over 7.3 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

19802000202014°16°18°

station CHABLIS_SAPC, 141 m, 9.8 km away

raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks

The name

val
valley. Vaux and vau are the same root in the plural and in older form. Relief · Frédéric Godefroy, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française (1881)

This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.

Who owns land here

4.02 ha of 8.33 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • DOMAINE DES QUATRE SAISONS16%
  • GFA DE GLATON13%
  • DE CHICHES BOUTEILLES7%
  • GFA LE GOULOT5%
  • GFA DE L'ARAIGNEE3%
  • 3 other legal entities4%
  • private individuals or unknown52%

Private individuals or unknown: 4.31 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.