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Lieu-dit · Solutré-Pouilly

Aux Combes

Aux Combes is a lieu-dit in Solutré-Pouilly, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.

11.5 ha

delimited

234 m

elevation

11.3 h

sun at harvest

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

In figures

LevelVillage 71%
Regional 29%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026)
VillageSolutré-Pouilly
RegionMâconnais, Burgundy
Delimited11.5 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026)
Planted10.1 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026)
Parcels87
Grape varietychardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026)
Organic26%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026)

Place in the village

Among the 44 named plots ranked village in Solutré-Pouilly, from high to low:

sun at harvest 17th
elevation 43rd
slope 28th
on the slope 39th

Position

234 m

elevation

14.3%

steep

ESE

east-southeast

mid-slope

concave fold

Elevation234 m 212 to 252 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Daytime temperature+0.60 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 313 m, ± 0.07 °Cmeteo-france-quotidiennes (18 September 2026) · meteo-france-postes (6 September 2026) · meteo-france-lsh (6 September 2026) · ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Slope14.3% 8.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Aspecteast-southeast 103°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
On the slope26% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 279 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Bedrock

youngold
  • 43%Aquitanian puddingstone and molasse about 23–⁠20 million years
  • 47%Nantoux limestone and Mercurey marl 157–⁠155 million years
  • 10%Marl and marly limestone, upper Bathonian to Oxfordian (undifferentiated) 166–⁠155 million years

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

In the glass. Where a marl layer lies within reach of the roots, the water supply in a dry summer is more generous than on the purely hard limestones. Wines from such plots are often described as fuller, but that works through the water reserve and not through the stone.

Fine, lithographic limestone that passes upwards into oolitic beds, with beneath it the grey marls of Mercurey, a formation in its own right that the map places under the same code. Deposited on a shallow, warm platform sea in which calm lagoons and agitated sandbanks alternated. Where the marl emerges at the foot of the limestone beds, a break in slope forms. Upper Oxfordian, about 157 to 155 million years old.

For the vine. What counts here is the stacking: marl at the bottom that retains water, limestone above that drains and supplies stone at the surface. Where a marl layer lies beneath a stony cover, the vine has a water reserve in August and surplus water can still get away in spring. Pure marl is cold and slow in spring and heavy to work, and the lime content varies greatly over short distances, so the chlorosis risk does too.

Named after Nantoux in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune and after Mercurey; the combination is characteristic of the Côte chalonnaise and of the higher slopes and flatter steps of the Côte de Beaune.

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: j5c, m1, j3-5.

brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)

Sun and horizon

07:41

above the hill

18:57

behind the crest of the slope

11.3 h

sun at harvest

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

Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:41 above the hill and disappears at 18:57 behind the crest of the slope: 11.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 6.6° above the horizon to the west-southwest.

Irradiation+0.1% versus flat land 1,069 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 sky99.1% 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 June05:5920:4114.7 h15.8 h
20 September07:4118:5711.3 h12.3 h
21 December09:0616:087.0 h8.6 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), 34% 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

15 m

above the lowest point

drains away

cold air

a main drain

129.3 ha flows past

Cold air15 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)
Cold air passing through129.3 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 4.47 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026)

Planting

SSE-NNW

diagonal to the slope

1.10 m

between the rows

100%

vineyard in 1950

RowsSSE-NNW (163°) diagonal to the slope (60°), every 1.10 m, varies by plotmeasured over 9.9 of 10.1 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026)
Vineyard in 1950100% abandoned since: 0.35 ha, rows then ran 69° differentlyassessed over 7.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026)

Climate over time

196019802000202014°16°18°20°

station MACON, 219 m, 5.2 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

combe
a dry side valley across the slope, from Gaulish cumba. In the Cote a combe is where cold air drains at night. Relief · BIVB, Des Climats uniques nés d'un environnement naturel varié (2019)

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

Who owns land here

5.43 ha of 11.5 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity

  • DOMAINE DES BOUTIRES7%
  • GFA DU DOMAINE SERMAGE6%
  • GFA DOMAINE FOREST5%
  • GFA CHATEAU POUILLY4%
  • SCEA DU CHATEAU DE BEAUREGARD4%
  • 10 other legal entities21%
  • private individuals or unknown53%
Show 3 more
  • 0.13 ha PONCET FILS GFA · land company
  • 0.10 ha GROUPEMENT FONCIER AGRICOLE BESSON AUPM · other
  • 0.07 ha DOMAINE DU CHALET POUILLY SCEA · wine business

Private individuals or unknown: 6.06 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.