Lieu-dit · Saint-Amour-Bellevue
Vers l'Église
Vers l'Église is a lieu-dit in Saint-Amour-Bellevue, Beaujolais in Saône-et-Loire, whose largest tier is village.
8.62 ha
delimited
291 m
elevation
12.0 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Villageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Saint-Amour-Bellevue |
| Region | Beaujolais in Saône-et-Loire |
| Delimited | 8.62 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 8.08 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 35 |
| Grape variety | gamay also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, meloninao-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 63 named plots ranked village in Saint-Amour-Bellevue, from high to low:
Position
291 m
elevation
10.7%
firm
S
south
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 291 m 280 to 304 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.10 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 276 m, ± 0.07 °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 | 10.7% 6.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | south 184°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 71% upper slope, on an even plane, 134 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Porphyritic monzogranite and quartz monzonite, Carboniferous about 350–330 million years (Dinantien, inferred from the map, not radiometric)
In the glass. Tends towards fragrant, finely built wines with tannin that is supple rather than broad. In practice that picture comes at least as much from the shallow, poor soil and the exposure as from the rock itself.
Igneous rock that crystallised deep in the crust during the building of the Hercynian mountain chain, roughly 350 to 330 million years ago. Porphyritic means that centimetre-sized feldspar crystals sit in a finer groundmass, which gives the stone its mottled, pink to pale grey appearance. At the surface this rock weathers to a coarse-grained, crumbly sand known locally as gore or arène, with half-rotted rock beneath; the depth at which solid rock begins varies greatly, from a few decimetres to several metres.
For the vine. Lime-free and acid, so virtually no risk of chlorosis, but no lime buffer either. The arène is very free-draining and warms quickly, which favours early ripening, but holds little water, so the depth of the weathered layer determines whether the vineyard gets through a dry summer. On shallow, steep plots it dries out quickly; where weathering goes metres deep, the vine roots far down and the water supply is in fact remarkably regular.
Occurs in the granite knolls of the southern Mâconnais around Chasselas and Leynes. Which Beaujolais crus lie precisely on this unit cannot be established without a parcel map; the well-known pink granite of Fleurie and Moulin-à-Vent belongs to a younger massif.
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: h1-2pγ3.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:30
over the crest of the slope
19:30
behind the hill
12.0 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:30 over the crest of the slope and disappears at 19:30 behind the hill: 12.0 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.6° above the horizon to the north.
| Irradiation | +2.8% versus flat land 1,105 kWh/m² from April to October, 39% 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:17 | 21:05 | 14.8 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:30 | 19:30 | 12.0 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:23 | 16:38 | 8.3 h | 8.6 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), 30% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
27 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
0.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 27 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 0.9 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.17 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
down the slope
1.05 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (7°) down the slope (3°), every 1.05 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 8.1 of 8.1 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 0.15 ha, rows then ran 23° differentlyassessed over 6.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MACON, 219 m, 7.2 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
The name
- eglise
- church or chapel, usually as an adjoining landmark or as owner. 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
2.86 ha of 8.62 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GFA DOMAINE DE LA PIROLETTE29%
- APF FRANCE HANDICAP1%
- ASSOC DIOCESAINE DE DIJON1%
- CONGREGATION DES PTES SOEURS PAUVRES1%
- FONDATION DES PETITS FRERES DES PAUVRES1%
- 1 other legal entity1%
- private individuals or unknown67%
- 2.48 ha GFA DOMAINE DE LA PIROLETTE GFA · land company
- 0.07 ha APF FRANCE HANDICAP ASS · other
- 0.07 ha ASSOC DIOCESAINE DE DIJON ASS · other
- 0.07 ha CONGREGATION DES PTES SOEURS PAUVRES ASS · other
- 0.07 ha FONDATION DES PETITS FRERES DES PAUVRES FON · other
- 0.07 ha LES PETITS FRERES DES PAUVRES ASS · other
Private individuals or unknown: 5.76 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
- En Cornillons Village · 200 m
- Le Bourg Village · 250 m
- Le Mas des Tines Village · 250 m
- La Pirolette Village · 350 m
- Aux Pierres Village · 350 m
- La Chevrolle Village · 350 m
- Le Carjot Village · 350 m
- La Creuse Perilleuse Village · 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.