Lieu-dit · Saint-Denis-de-Vaux
Les Plantes du Clos
Les Plantes du Clos is a lieu-dit in Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
5.08 ha
delimited
297 m
elevation
9.7 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 | Saint-Denis-de-Vaux |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 5.08 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.19 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 11 |
| Grape variety | aligoté, chardonnay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot gris, gamay, pinot noir, césar also permitted: aligoté, chardonnay, gamay de bouze, gamay de chaudenay, melon, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-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 22 named plots ranked regional in Saint-Denis-de-Vaux, from high to low:
Position
297 m
elevation
19.1%
steep
NW
northwest
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 297 m 276 to 328 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.12 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 282 m, ± 0.01 °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 | 19.1% 10.8°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | northwest 305°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 34% mid slope, on an even plane, 337 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 15%Slope scree and landslips Laat-Pleistoceen tot heden, plaatselijk nog actief
- 3%Alluvium and colluvium of valley floors and footslopes circa 0,12 tot heden
- 63%Toarcian marl and clay 184–175 million years
- 19%Micaceous marl, lower Domerian about 186–185 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards firm, somewhat rustic wine with plenty of substance and less aromatic lift. On its own this substrate says little, because it is almost always covered by weathered material and colluvium from higher up. (weak indication)
Grey to blue-grey marl and clay with thin sandy, micaceous layers, deposited in the Toarcian in a sea that temporarily became oxygen-poor. It is a soft sequence that offers little resistance and forms depressions and gently sloping lower slopes in the landscape. Sand and mica give the clay a little more structure locally, but the profile remains heavy.
For the vine. Retentive, cool soil with a considerable water reserve, slow in spring and prone to compaction. The sandy layers improve aeration here and there, but the whole remains a clay soil that calls for slope and drainage. Little active lime means low chlorosis pressure; waterlogging and excess vigour are the real drawbacks.
Forms the soft lower slopes and depressions on the western edge of the Mâconnais and the Côte chalonnaise, usually under a blanket of colluvium.
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: l4, l3b, E, FC.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
09:44
above the hill
19:27
behind the hill
9.7 h
sun at harvest
1.6 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 09:44 above the hill and disappears at 19:27 behind the hill: 9.7 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 22.5° above the horizon to the east-southeast. The relief costs 1.0% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | −5.4% versus flat land 999 kWh/m² from April to October, 44% 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 | 98.3% 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 | 07:35 | 21:18 | 13.7 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 09:44 | 19:27 | 9.7 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 11:13 | 16:38 | 5.4 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), 33% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
The irradiation loss does include clouds: the average of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC), not any particular year.
Air and cold
45 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
5.4 ha flows past
| Cold air | 45 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 5.4 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.38 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
ESE-WNW
down the slope
1.04 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | ESE-WNW (120°) down the slope (5°), every 1.04 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 3.2 of 3.2 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 5.1 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 24.8 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 13.5 °C, 1991-2020: 15.1 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,248, 1991-2020: 1,553
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 107, 1991-2020: day 101
series homogenised through 2022
The name
- plante
- planting, a parcel newly planted at some point. It says something about the plot's history, not about its soil. Viticulture · Gérard Taverdet, Noms de lieux de Bourgogne (2007)
- clos
- an enclosed plot, walled or hedged. In Burgundy the wall often carries a monastic or seigneurial past; clou and cloux are the same root in diminutive form. Ownership and saints · Association des Climats du vignoble de Bourgogne, Les noms des Climats (2026)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- L'Evêche Regional · 150 m
- Le Saugis Regional · 200 m
- La Lierce Regional · 250 m
- La Beaune Regional · 400 m
- En Pranet Regional · 400 m
- Vignes Chagney Regional · 450 m
- Le Mai Lacroix Regional · 450 m
- Le Beauchot Regional · 450 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.