Lieu-dit · Saint-Désert
Sous Saint-Germain
Sous Saint-Germain is a lieu-dit in Saint-Désert, Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
5.55 ha
delimited
261 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 | Regionalinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Saint-Désert |
| Region | Côte Chalonnaise, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 5.55 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 4.57 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 55 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay, pinot noir, pinot blanc, pinot gris, aligoté, melon, sacy also permitted: gamayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 40%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 40 named plots ranked regional in Saint-Désert, from high to low:
Position
261 m
elevation
12.9%
steep
S
south
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 261 m 236 to 295 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.01 °C not measurable: smaller than the uncertainty. by day, relative to the village centre at 262 m, ± 0.02 °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 | 12.9% 7.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | south 185°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 23% mid slope, on an even plane, 252 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 24%Alluvium and colluvium of valley floors and footslopes circa 0,12 tot heden
- 40%Toarcian marl and clay 184–175 million years
- 36%Domerian marl and sandy limestone about 186–184 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-c, FC.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:45
above the hill
19:14
behind the hill
11.5 h
sun at harvest
0.7 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:45 above the hill and disappears at 19:14 behind the hill: 11.5 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 11.7° above the horizon to the north-northeast.
| Irradiation | +3.1% versus flat land 1,089 kWh/m² from April to October, 41% 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 | 99.4% 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 | 06:41 | 20:40 | 14.0 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 07:45 | 19:14 | 11.5 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:31 | 16:34 | 8.1 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), 36% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
26 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
7.9 ha flows past
| Cold air | 26 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 7.9 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.47 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
down the slope
1.07 m
between the rows
90%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (6°) down the slope (1°), every 1.07 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 4.4 of 4.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 90% abandoned since: 0.49 ha, planted since: 0.21 haassessed over 4.5 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station MT-ST-VINCENT, 601 m, 23.0 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
- 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)
- saint
- a saint, usually the patron of the church or of the order that owned the ground. Clos Saint-Jean and Clos Saint-Denis carry their owner in their name. 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
3.82 ha of 5.55 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- DOMAINE DES CROIX PERRIERES40%
- EARL MICHEL GOUBARD ET FILS29%
- private individuals or unknown31%
- 2.21 ha DOMAINE DES CROIX PERRIERES SCEA · wine business · organic
- 1.60 ha LES FILS DE MICHEL GOUBARD GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 1.73 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
- Les Centaines Regional · 200 m
- En Guigne Pied Regional · 200 m
- Les Beaux Verents Regional · 300 m
- La Montée Regional · 300 m
- La Saule Regional · 300 m
- Le Clos des Pierres Regional · 350 m
- Montbogre Regional · 400 m
- Le Clos Saint-Pierre Regional · 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.