Lieu-dit · Santenay
Sous le Chemin de Beaune
Sous le Chemin de Beaune is a lieu-dit in Santenay, Côte de Beaune, Burgundy, whose largest tier is regional.
6.07 ha
delimited
223 m
elevation
10.6 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 | Santenay |
| Region | Côte de Beaune, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 6.07 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.14 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 30 |
| Grape variety | pinot noir, gamay also permitted: chardonnay, 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 6 named plots ranked regional in Santenay, from high to low:
Position
223 m
elevation
9.3%
firm
SE
southeast
foot
convex ridge
| Elevation | 223 m 216 to 236 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) |
| Slope | 9.3% 5.3°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 128°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 7% foot of the slope, on a convex ridge, 165 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 8%Modern alluvium of the rivers 0.012–0 million years
- 27%Colluvium, mixed slope deposit about 0.1–0 million years
- 65%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, C, Fz.
brgm-bdcharm50 (c. 4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:01
above the hill
18:37
behind the hill
10.6 h
sun at harvest
1.2 h
lost to the hill
Grey: sun up, behind the hill or its own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:01 above the hill and disappears at 18:37 behind the hill: 10.6 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 11.8° above the horizon to the northwest. The relief costs 0.6% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | +0.8% versus flat land 1,058 kWh/m² from April to October, 42% 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 | 98.0% 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 | 06:46 | 20:23 | 13.6 h | 15.9 h |
| 20 September | 08:01 | 18:37 | 10.6 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:26 | 16:01 | 6.6 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), 26% 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
9 m
above the lowest point
comes close
cold air
a main drain
174.2 ha flows past
| Cold air | 9 m low on the slope, cold air comes closeign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 174.2 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 3.93 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SSE-NNW
down the slope
1.03 m
between the rows
82%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SSE-NNW (154°) down the slope (26°), every 1.03 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.1 of 1.1 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 82% abandoned since: 2.11 haassessed over 3.7 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
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
- 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)
- chemin
- road or path. A name that marks the plot's boundary. 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
2.18 ha of 6.07 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- COMMUNE DE SANTENAY18%
- DOMAINE DE L'ABBAYE DE SANTENAY15%
- FONDATION PRIVEE GAYE SAINT COSME2%
- private individuals or unknown64%
- 1.11 ha COMMUNE DE SANTENAY COM · public
- 0.93 ha DOMAINE DE L'ABBAYE DE SANTENAY GFA · land company
- 0.14 ha FONDATION PRIVEE GAYE SAINT COSME FON · other
Private individuals or unknown: 3.89 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
- Saint-Martin Regional · 400 m
- Lès Potets Village · 550 m
- Peuraine Regional · 650 m
- Lès Vaux Dessous Regional · 650 m
- Lès Vaux Dessus Village · 700 m
- Lès Charmes Dessous Village · 700 m
- Aux Paquiers Village · 750 m
- Aux Bruchottes Regional · 800 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.