Lieu-dit · Puligny-Montrachet
Champ Gain
Champ Gain is a lieu-dit in Puligny-Montrachet, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Champ Gain.
10.7 ha
delimited
335 m
elevation
11.5 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cruinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Champ Gain |
| Village | Puligny-Montrachet |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 10.7 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 9.90 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 71 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay also permitted: pinot blancinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 34%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 21 named plots ranked premier cru in Puligny-Montrachet, from high to low:
Position
335 m
elevation
13.5%
steep
ESE
east-southeast
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 335 m 310 to 366 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.62 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 m, ± 0.09 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 13.5% 7.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 114°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 47% upper slope, on an even plane, 398 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 95%Oolithe blanche (Middle Bathonian) 167.5–166.5 million years
- 5%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–166 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Associated in the trade with finely built rather than powerful white wine. The light, reflective, fast-warming soil probably counts for at least as much in that as the composition of the rock. (weak indication)
Limestone consisting almost entirely of ooids, millimetre-sized lime spheres that grew as they rolled back and forth over a warm, shallow, agitated seabed, comparable to the sandbanks of the Bahamas today. The rock is pale, granular and fairly porous, and distinctly softer than the Comblanchien above. Middle Bathonian, about 167.5 to 166.5 million years old.
For the vine. Porous and permeable, so it drains well but also holds more water in its own pores than the dense lithographic limestones. It weathers to a pale, granular, strongly calcareous soil that warms quickly and keeps an airy structure. The active lime content is high, so chlorosis is the standard concern here and the choice of rootstock is decisive.
Occurs on the plateaus and upper slopes of the Côte and in the Hautes-Côtes, beneath the hard beds of the Upper Bathonian.
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: j3b, j3a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:27
above the flat horizon
18:59
behind the hill
11.5 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:27 above the flat horizon and disappears at 18:59 behind the hill: 11.5 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 12.3° above the horizon to the northwest.
| Irradiation | +1.0% versus flat land 1,060 kWh/m² from April to October, 42% 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 sky | 99.8% 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
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:50 | 20:23 | 14.6 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:27 | 18:59 | 11.5 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:26 | 16:27 | 8.0 h | 8.5 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), 30% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
48 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
3.5 ha flows past
| Cold air | 48 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 3.5 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.38 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.00 m
between the rows
99%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (122°) down the slope (8°), every 1.00 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 9.7 of 9.9 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 99% abandoned since: 0.05 ha, planted since: 0.08 haassessed over 9.8 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 6.1 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
- champ
- field, from Latin campus. The third most common element in this atlas and usually descriptive: open arable land, often predating the vines. Work and use · 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
3.79 ha of 10.7 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- FAIVELEY PULIGNY10%
- G F A JULIE ET ROGER BELLAND4%
- DOMAINE TAWSE4%
- SCI LES CLIMATS3%
- ETIENNE SAUZET3%
- 11 other legal entities12%
- private individuals or unknown65%
- 1.04 ha FAIVELEY PULIGNY SC · land company · other right 0.01 ha
- 0.45 ha G F A JULIE ET ROGER BELLAND GFA · land company
- 0.40 ha DOMAINE TAWSE SC · land company · organic
- 0.31 ha SCI LES CLIMATS SCI · land company
- 0.28 ha ETIENNE SAUZET SAS · other
- 0.26 ha PULIGNY-CHAMPS GAINS GFA · land company
- 0.24 ha GILLES FRANCIS ANDRE GFA · land company
- 0.18 ha DOMAINE DE BRULLY SCEA · wine business
- 0.16 ha DOMAINE LOUIS VIOLLAND SC · land company · bare ownership
- 0.16 ha SOC CIV AGRIC DOMAINE DE LA VOUGERAIE SCEA · wine business · usufruct · organic
- 0.13 ha DOMAINE FRANCOIS ET ANTOINE JOBARD EARL · wine business · usufruct · organic
- 0.06 ha SCEA IMMABAIL SCEA · wine business
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- 0.05 ha DOMAINE LEFLAIVE SCEA · wine business · organic
- 0.05 ha COMMUNE DE PULIGNY-MONTRACHET COM · public
- 0.02 ha DOMAINE PERNOT BELICARD SARL · wine business · other right
- 0.01 ha CONSORTIUM VITICOLE VINICOLE BOURGOGNE SAS · wine business · other right · organic
Private individuals or unknown: 6.91 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
- La Garenne ou sur la Garenne Premier Cru · 300 m
- Le Trezin Village · 350 m
- Ez Folatières Premier Cru · 400 m
- Peux Bois Dit "les Folatieres" Premier Cru · 400 m
- Mont-Rachet Regional · 400 m
- En la Richarde Dit "les Folatieres" Premier Cru · 450 m
- La Truffière Premier Cru · 450 m
- Hameau de Blagny Premier Cru · 500 m
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.