Lieu-dit · Puligny-Montrachet
Ez Folatières
Ez Folatières is a lieu-dit in Puligny-Montrachet, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Les Folatières.
14.1 ha
delimited
278 m
elevation
11.1 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cru 97% Village 3%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Les Folatières |
| Village | Puligny-Montrachet |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 14.1 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 13.6 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 138 |
| 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 | 25%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
278 m
elevation
15.9%
steep
SE
southeast
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 278 m 250 to 313 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.20 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 250 m, ± 0.05 °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 | 15.9% 9.0°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 126°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 24% mid slope, on an even plane, 556 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 10%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
- 32%White oolite of the Bathonian 167–165 million years
- 31%Bathonian oolite and fine-grained limestone 168–166 million years
- 27%Bathonian limestone (Comblanchien and Nod) 168–165 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. There are too few identifiable parcels on this unit to attach a style to it. Where vineyards lie close to the plateau edge, altitude, thin soil and the cooler position explain more than the stone.
The Oolithe blanche is a very pure, pale limestone consisting almost entirely of ooid grains, formed in shallow, moving, warm platform water in the Middle to Upper Bathonian, roughly 167 to 165 million years ago. Its hardness varies from place to place, from fairly soft and granular to compact and hardly porous. In the Yonne, the Châtillonnais and parts of the Mâconnais it forms the plateaux and small cliffs; in the Côte d'Or that role is mostly played by the Comblanchien and the Dalle nacrée.
For the vine. Almost pure lime with little clay, so very permeable and with a small water reserve of its own. Parcels on it usually lie on or just below the plateau edge, where the soil is thin and the vine has to rely on cracks and weathered material brought in from elsewhere. The active lime content is high, and the higher position slows ripening.
Forms the plateau edges and small cliffs in the Yonne, the Châtillonnais and parts of the Mâconnais; rarely planted on its own.
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: j3O, j3a, j3, GP.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:27
above the flat horizon
18:34
behind the hill
11.1 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 18:34 behind the hill: 11.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 13.6° above the horizon to the west-northwest.
| Irradiation | +1.8% versus flat land 1,068 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 | 99.7% 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 | 05:59 | 20:07 | 14.1 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:27 | 18:34 | 11.1 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:25 | 16:07 | 7.7 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
34 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a combe
13.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 34 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 13.2 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.71 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.01 m
between the rows
99%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (122°) down the slope (4°), every 1.01 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 13.1 of 13.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 99% planted since: 0.11 haassessed over 11.8 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
Who owns land here
3.91 ha of 14.1 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- DOMAINE LEFLAIVE6%
- HVG VIGNOBLES6%
- SOCIETE DU DOMAINE DES LAMBRAYS2%
- SCE DU DOMAINE D AUVENAY2%
- DOMAINE DE MONTILLE2%
- 10 other legal entities10%
- private individuals or unknown72%
- 0.84 ha GFA DES ASSOCIES DU DOMAINE LEFLAIVE GFA · land company
- 0.81 ha HVG VIGNOBLES SCEA · wine business
- 0.28 ha SOCIETE DU DOMAINE DES LAMBRAYS SAS · wine business · organic
- 0.27 ha SCE DU DOMAINE D AUVENAY SCEA · wine business · organic
- 0.26 ha DOMAINE DE MONTILLE SAS · wine business · organic
- 0.26 ha SCI MONTILLE ET PARTNERS SCI · land company
- 0.24 ha PULIGNY FILLES ET PETITS ENFANTS SCEA · wine business
- 0.24 ha LOUIS GLANTENAY ET SES ENFANTS GFA · land company
- 0.17 ha DU CROMIN GFA · land company
- 0.14 ha C P E F SAS · other · organic
- 0.14 ha GFV ROYET-BOUCHARD GFA · land company
- 0.09 ha GFA E S L GFA · land company
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- 0.08 ha DOMAINE BERTHELEMOT SCEA · wine business
- 0.04 ha 2A3C SCI · land company · bare ownership
- 0.04 ha EARL DOMAINE ALAIN CHAVY SCEA · wine business · usufruct
Private individuals or unknown: 10.2 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
- Mont-Rachet Regional · 200 m
- Clos de la Garenne ou Champ Canet Premier Cru · 250 m
- Au Chaniot Dit"les Folatieres" Premier Cru · 300 m
- La Truffière Premier Cru · 300 m
- Clavaillon Premier Cru · 350 m
- Peux Bois Dit "les Folatieres" Premier Cru · 350 m
- La Jaquelotte ou Champ Canet Premier Cru · 350 m
- Champ Gain Premier Cru · 400 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.