Lieu-dit · Remigny
Sous la Croix
Sous la Croix is a lieu-dit in Remigny, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
3.72 ha
delimited
231 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 | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Remigny |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 3.72 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.17 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 43 |
| Grape variety | aligotéinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 12 named plots ranked regional in Remigny, from high to low:
Position
231 m
elevation
7.1%
firm
NE
northeast
foot
even slope
| Elevation | 231 m 224 to 239 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.04 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 236 m, ± 0.01 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Slope | 7.1% 4.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | northeast 46°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 15% foot of the slope, on an even plane, 163 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Oolitic limestone, marl and chailles (late Bathonian to Callovian) 165.5–161.5 million years
In the glass. Plots where the decalcified clay with chailles dominates are often described as fresher and firmer. This is an observation from practice, probably via the lower pH and the stony top layer, not a measured relationship. (weak indication)
A mixed sequence of oolitic limestone, marl bands and chailles, siliceous nodules that grew in the lime mud during hardening. Chailles resemble flint but are less pure and more porous, with more lime in the siliceous mass. Where the limestone has dissolved at the surface, a decalcified clay remains in which the insoluble chailles lie loose; about 165.5 to 161.5 million years old.
For the vine. Mixed behaviour: the oolite drains readily, the marl bands retain water and the chailles form a stony, fast-warming top layer. Where the decalcified clay with chailles dominates, the soil is more acidic and poorer in active lime, which lowers the chlorosis risk. Rooting depth varies greatly over a few metres, depending on where a marl band lies.
Occurs on the plateaus and upper slopes of the Côte and in the Hautes-Côtes, where the decalcified clay with chailles lies at the surface.
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-4.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:52
above the hill
19:00
behind the hill
11.1 h
sun at harvest
0.8 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:52 above the hill and disappears at 19:00 behind the hill: 11.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.4° above the horizon to the southeast.
| Irradiation | −1.9% versus flat land 1,028 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) |
|---|---|
| Open sky | 99.1% 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
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:02 | 20:51 | 14.8 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:52 | 19:00 | 11.1 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:32 | 16:11 | 6.7 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), 28% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
18 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a gully
8.8 ha flows past
| Cold air | 18 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 8.8 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.45 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
1.16 m
between the rows
96%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (39°) down the slope (7°), every 1.16 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 0.2 of 1.2 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 96% abandoned since: 1.00 haassessed over 2.2 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
- sur
- above or below something else: sur le chemin, sous le bois. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- croix
- cross. A wayside or boundary cross that served as a landmark. Ownership and saints · Gérard Taverdet, Noms de lieux de Bourgogne (2007)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
1.29 ha of 3.72 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFA SOUS LA CROIX33%
- L'ESCALE2%
- private individuals or unknown65%
- 1.23 ha GFA SOUS LA CROIX GFA · land company
- 0.06 ha L'ESCALE SCI · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 2.43 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
- Vigne sur la Rue Regional · 250 m
- En la Montagne Regional · 450 m
- Le Clos Dessus Regional · 550 m
- Clos Dessous Regional · 600 m
- Aux Nobles Regional · 700 m
- Le Gouard Regional · 700 m
- Creux de Lessard Regional · 900 m
- En Colonge Regional · 1.0 km
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.