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Lieu-dit · Pouilly-sur-Loire

Les Vallées

Les Vallées is a lieu-dit in Pouilly-sur-Loire, Nivernais, Centre-Loire, whose largest tier is village.

7.17 ha

delimited

192 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)
VillagePouilly-sur-Loire
RegionNivernais, Centre-Loire
Delimited7.17 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted3.64 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels114
Grape varietychasselasinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic6%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 79 named plots ranked village in Pouilly-sur-Loire, from high to low:

sun at harvest 45th
elevation 45th
slope 18th
on the slope 48th

Position

192 m

elevation

14.2%

steep

NNW

north-northwest

upper

concave fold

Elevation192 m 170 to 214 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope14.2% 8.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectnorth-northwest 327°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope47% upper slope, in a concave hollow, 707 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 24%Alluvium and colluvium of valley floors and footslopes circa 0,12 tot heden
  • 29%Upper Kimmeridgian limestone and marl about 152–⁠149 million years (approximation, regional division)
  • 47%Kimmeridgian marl with Nanogyra 155–⁠149 million years

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

In the glass. Tends towards bright, acid-driven white wine with a saline impression, in the same vein as the Kimmeridgian of Chablis. For red the picture is far less clear-cut.

Grey-blue marl with intervening limestone beds, loaded with the small comma-shaped oyster Nanogyra virgula, called Exogyra virgula in the older literature. The same virgula facies as in Chablis and in the same Kimmeridgian band, but coded differently on this map sheet; the exact range within the stage need not coincide with that of j8. It weathers to a clayey, lime-rich soil in which the limestone beds lie at the surface as flat fragments.

For the vine. The alternation of marl and limestone beds provides, in theory, both reserve and drainage. Whether that actually works out that way in a plot depends on slope, soil depth and compaction. The active lime content is high, so chlorosis calls for attention in the choice of rootstock, and on flat ground the soil stays cold and wet.

Characteristic of the Châtillonnais around Châtillon-sur-Seine and Massingy, in the same Kimmeridgian band as Chablis and the Côte des Bar.

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: j6c, j7, FC.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

08:07

above the hill

19:44

behind the hill

11.6 h

sun at harvest

Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:07 above the hill and disappears at 19:44 behind the hill: 11.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 7.9° above the horizon to the south-southeast.

Irradiation−4.4% versus flat land 980 kWh/m² from April to October, 46% 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 sky99.2% 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
risesetsunday
21 June06:3721:4115.1 h15.9 h
20 September08:0719:4411.6 h12.3 h
21 December09:3916:226.7 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), 23% 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

43 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a combe

34.0 ha flows past

Cold air43 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through34.0 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 1.62 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

NE-SW

across the slope

1.24 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsNE-SW (39°) across the slope (72°), every 1.24 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 3.4 of 3.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100% abandoned since: 2.57 haassessed over 6.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

1980200014°16°18°

station COURS LES COSNE, 196 m, 17.8 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

1.99 ha of 7.17 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • SCEA JEAN PABIOT ET FILS11%
  • PATRICE MOREUX11%
  • DOMAINE CHATELAIN6%
  • private individuals or unknown72%

Private individuals or unknown: 5.18 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.