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Lieu-dit · Prissé

Lès Châtaigniers

Lès Châtaigniers is a lieu-dit in Prissé, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

20.6 ha

delimited

320 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

LevelVillageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillagePrissé
RegionMâconnais, Burgundy
Delimited20.6 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted19.3 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels62
Grape varietychardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic59%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 66 named plots ranked village in Prissé, from high to low:

sun at harvest 60th
elevation 5th
slope 2nd
on the slope 11th

Position

320 m

elevation

19.2%

steep

ENE

east-northeast

mid-slope

even slope

Elevation320 m 289 to 356 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature−0.49 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 253 m, ± 0.07 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope19.2% 10.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-northeast 62°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope42% mid slope, on an even plane, 315 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 66%Massive Bathonian limestone, dolomitic top 166.5–⁠165.3 million years
  • 17%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–⁠166 million years
  • 18%Bajocian to Bathonian marl 169–⁠166 million years

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

In the glass. Where the soil stays thin, this tends towards compact, firm wine that opens slowly and shows little volume. In a hot, dry year the main effect is above all water stress, not a flavour that comes from the stone itself.

Thick, hard, virtually unbedded limestone, formed on a warm shallow platform where fine lime mud was bound by algae and burrowing animals. The well-known Comblanchien belongs to this level and is quarried as building stone; it recurs under more than one map code, depending on how the map sheet has subdivided the sequence. At the top the rock is dolomitised, so that on weathering it breaks up into a more crumbly, sandier material; Upper Bathonian, 166.5 to 165.3 million years old.

For the vine. This is one of the hardest and most erosion-resistant rocks of the Côte and it forms the rocky upper edge of the slope, with very thin, extremely stony soils and almost no water reserve. Roots have to rely on joints and fissures, the soil warms quickly, drains completely and is strongly calcareous, so that without a colluvial cover or a marl band beneath the vine suffers in a dry year. The dolomitised top weathers to a sandier, looser soil with less active lime, although the total carbonate content remains high.

Forms the hard upper edge of the Côte de Nuits, with the well-known quarries at Comblanchien and Corgoloin.

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: j3c, j2b-3a, j3a.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:27

above the flat horizon

18:28

behind the hill

11.0 h

sun at harvest

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:27 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:28 behind the hill: 11.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 12.9° above the horizon to the west-southwest.

Irradiation−3.9% versus flat land 1,024 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)
Three reference days, the caveat
risesetsunday
21 June05:5320:3914.8 h15.8 h
20 September07:2718:2811.0 h12.3 h
21 December08:2315:287.1 h8.6 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

45 m

above the lowest point

drains far away

cold air

a gully

3.4 ha flows past

Cold air45 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through3.4 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.31 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

ENE-WSW

down the slope

1.19 m

between the rows

91%

vineyard in 1950

RowsENE-WSW (61°) down the slope (2°), every 1.19 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 19.3 of 19.3 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195091% abandoned since: 0.26 ha, planted since: 1.50 haassessed over 16.3 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202014°16°18°20°

station MACON, 219 m, 4.8 km away

growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 15.4 °C, 1991-2020: 17.1 °C

Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,718, 1991-2020: 2,022

last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 96, 1991-2020: day 85

series homogenised through 2022

Who owns land here

8.95 ha of 20.6 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • GFA DE LA PELLETIERE12%
  • AU FIL DE L'EAU7%
  • COMMUNE DE PRISSE7%
  • GFA LORAIN5%
  • SAUMAIZE4%
  • 6 other legal entities9%
  • private individuals or unknown56%

Private individuals or unknown: 11.6 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.