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Lieu-dit · Pommard

Lès Vignots

Lès Vignots is a lieu-dit in Pommard, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

15.2 ha

delimited

327 m

elevation

11.6 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelVillageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillagePommard
RegionCôte de Beaune, Burgundy
Delimited15.2 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted13.5 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels95
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)
Organic22%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 33 named plots ranked village in Pommard, from high to low:

sun at harvest 16
elevation 6
slope 5
on the slope 6

Position

327 m

elevation

20.1%

very steep

SSW

south-southwest

upper

concave fold

Elevation327 m 302 to 352 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature−0.44 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 266 m, ± 0.07 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope20.1% 11.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectsouth-southwest 194°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope53% upper slope, in a concave hollow, 306 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 64%Oxfordian marl with iron oolites 159.5–⁠157 million years
  • 36%Argovien marl and marly limestone 159.5–⁠157.5 million years

Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.

In the glass. Marl slopes tend towards wine with more body and breadth than the thin limestone beds above, and for chardonnay this substrate is often associated with power and ageing potential. That link runs through water regime and soil depth, not directly through the rock type.

Deposited in a calm, slightly deeper sea than the hard platform limestones beneath, with so little sediment supply that iron-rich oolite grains and ammonites could accumulate. In between lie harder beds full of sea lily fragments, the Calcaire à Balanocrinus. In the soil it is grey-blue, crumbly marl that turns sticky when wet, with limestone slabs and rusty brown grains in between; Middle Oxfordian, roughly 159.5 to 157 million years old.

For the vine. Marl retains water, so plots on this substrate generally run into drought stress later in dry vintages than the thin soils on the hard limestone beds; how much later depends on soil depth and position on the slope. The flip side is slowness, because wet marl warms slowly in spring and is heavy to work, so the formation only works well on sufficient slope. The active lime content is generally substantial, so the choice of rootstock against chlorosis really matters here.

Forms broad bands on the upper slopes of the Côte de Beaune: it is the substrate of Corton-Charlemagne and of the upper slopes above Pommard and Volnay, and of much of the Hautes-Côtes.

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: j5a, j5b.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:56

above the hill

19:30

behind the hill

11.6 h

sun at harvest

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:56 above the hill and disappears at 19:30 behind the hill: 11.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 23.6° above the horizon to the north.

Irradiation+4.0% versus flat land 1,079 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 sky98.5% 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 and the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June07:2420:5313.5 h15.9 h
20 September07:5619:3011.6 h12.3 h
21 December08:2516:388.2 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), 35% 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

59 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

little inflow

1.4 ha flows past

Cold air59 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through1.4 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.28 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

NNE-SSW

down the slope

1.02 m

between the rows

99%

vineyard in 1950

RowsNNE-SSW (16°) down the slope (2°), every 1.02 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 13.4 of 13.5 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195099% abandoned since: 0.33 ha, planted since: 0.07 haassessed over 14.0 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°

station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 11.2 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

vigne
vineyard, the ordinary word for planted ground. The most common element in this atlas, usually descriptive rather than distinguishing. Viticulture · 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

7.58 ha of 15.2 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • LEROY S A8%
  • DOMAINE CHANTAL LESCURE7%
  • GFA LA SARRAZINE4%
  • EARL CATHERINE ET CLAUDE MARECHAL3%
  • SOCIETE CIVILE FONCIERE VITICOLE DE COTE D'OR3%
  • 17 other legal entities25%
  • private individuals or unknown50%
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  • 0.24 ha DOMAINE GERMAIN PERE ET FILS GFA · land company
  • 0.22 ha GFV PILLOT- SIVRY GFA · land company
  • 0.22 ha DOMAINE MICHEL PRUNIER GFA · land company
  • 0.22 ha FAMILIALE MX SCI · land company
  • 0.20 ha DOMAINE LAURENT PERE ET FILS EARL · wine business · organic
  • 0.20 ha GFA LES VIGNOTS AUPM · other
  • 0.18 ha DOMAINE DU MOULIN AUX MOINES SCI · land company
  • 0.10 ha VERNIER INVEST SAS · other
  • 0.05 ha DOMAINE PROPRIETAIRES INCONNUS AUPM · wine business
  • 0.01 ha COMMUNE DE POMMARD COM · public

Private individuals or unknown: 7.67 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.