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Lieu-dit · Santenay

Lès Prarons Dessus

Lès Prarons Dessus is a lieu-dit in Santenay, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

18.2 ha

delimited

223 m

elevation

11.9 h

sun at harvest

Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.

In figures

LevelVillageinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageSantenay
RegionCôte de Beaune, Burgundy
Delimited18.2 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted17.6 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels49
Grape varietypinot noir / chardonnay also permitted: pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic20%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 32 named plots ranked village in Santenay, from high to low:

sun at harvest 1st
elevation 28th
slope 32nd
on the slope 26th

Position

223 m

elevation

4.7%

gentle

SSE

south-southeast

plain

even slope

Elevation223 m 217 to 240 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.39 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 276 m, ± 0.05 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope4.7% 2.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspectsouth-southeast 168°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope7% flat ground, on an even plane, 181 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

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  • 22%Slope scree and landslips Laat-Pleistoceen tot heden, plaatselijk nog actief
  • 24%Stratified frost scree and colluvium 0.115–⁠0.012 million years (laatste ijstijd)
  • 6%Recent alluvium of the valley floors 0.12–⁠0 million years
  • 48%Old clayey alluvium, locally with chailles 2,58 tot circa 0,4 (Vroeg tot Midden-Pleistoceen, niet nauwkeurig gedateerd)

Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.

In the glass. In practice yields supple, early-drinking wine with less concentration. That has more to do with soil depth, fertility and flat position than with the alluvium itself. (weak indication)

Old river deposits that have not been subdivided further: clayey loam with gravel, locally with fragments of chailles, hard siliceous nodules left behind as insoluble residue from the Jurassic limestone. The deposit dates from the Pleistocene, which begins 2.58 million years ago, and lies in the plain and on old terrace remnants. It is by definition a mixture, because what it contains depends on which rocks the river cut into upstream.

For the vine. Deep, often fertile soil with a large water-holding capacity and a clayey, sometimes poorly draining subsoil. The chailles and the gravel make the profile locally stonier and better drained; they are lime-free, but they do not determine the pH of the soil, which follows from the clayey-loamy matrix, so chlorosis pressure has to be measured plot by plot. A flat position means cold air, frost risk and little natural drainage.

Lies at the foot of the Côte and in the plain towards the Saône, where mainly the regional appellations are found.

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: Fx, GP, E, Fy.

brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:27

above the flat horizon

19:20

behind the hill

11.9 h

sun at harvest

Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:27 above the flat horizon and disappears at 19:20 behind the hill: 11.9 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.0° above the horizon to the west-northwest.

Irradiation+1.2% versus flat land 1,061 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 sky99.6% 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
risesetsunday
21 June05:5620:4314.8 h15.9 h
20 September07:2719:2011.9 h12.3 h
21 December08:3716:478.2 h8.5 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), 26% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.

ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) · ign-lidarhd-mnh (6 September 2026) · ign-bdforet-v2 (5 September 2026)

Air and cold

11 m

above the lowest point

drains away

cold air

a main drain

106.6 ha flows past

Cold air11 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through106.6 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 3.19 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

SSE-NNW

down the slope

1.03 m

between the rows

97%

vineyard in 1950

RowsSSE-NNW (157°) down the slope (11°), every 1.03 m, varies by plotmeasured over 17.5 of 17.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026)
Vineyard in 195097% abandoned since: 0.13 ha, planted since: 0.48 haassessed over 14.7 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202012°14°16°

station LA ROCHEPOT, 417 m, 4.6 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

dessus
above, higher than the thing named. Les Charmes-Dessus lies above Les Charmes-Dessous. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)

This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.

Who owns land here

9.80 ha of 18.2 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • GFA LA COTE DE BEAUNE14%
  • DOMAINE DE L'ABBAYE DE SANTENAY9%
  • BORGEOT8%
  • LES COTEAUX DE SANTENAY4%
  • GFA DES BAUDINES3%
  • 7 other legal entities15%
  • private individuals or unknown46%

Private individuals or unknown: 8.42 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

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.