Lieu-dit · Solutré-Pouilly
Le Clos
Le Clos is a lieu-dit in Solutré-Pouilly, Mâconnais, Burgundy, whose largest tier is premier cru. It lies within the official cru Le Clos de Solutré.
3.84 ha
delimited
300 m
elevation
11.2 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Premier Cru 49% Regional 35% Village 16%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Official cru | Le Clos de Solutré |
| Village | Solutré-Pouilly |
| Region | Mâconnais, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 3.84 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.66 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 9 |
| Grape variety | chardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 55%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 17 named plots ranked premier cru in Solutré-Pouilly, from high to low:
Position
300 m
elevation
15.3%
steep
ESE
east-southeast
mid-slope
concave fold
| Elevation | 300 m 289 to 317 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.12 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 313 m, ± 0.02 °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 | 15.3% 8.7°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-southeast 116°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 29% mid slope, in a concave hollow, 461 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 51%Modern alluvium of the rivers 0.012–0 million years
- 49%Carixian to Toarcian dark clay 193–175 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. As a rule yields simple, supple wine. This substrate says little on its own and is rarely regarded in Burgundy as a carrier of quality. (weak indication)
The youngest river deposits, from the Holocene to the present day, so roughly the last twelve thousand years. Sand, silt, clay and gravel in the active floodplain, still in motion at high water. Variable from place to place, because every bend of the river deposits something different.
For the vine. Even flatter, wetter and younger than Fy, with a water table that can stay close beneath the surface. Water is never the problem here, vigour and late ripening are, and frost sensitivity in April is high. Only where the deposit is gravelly enough is drainage acceptable.
Along the Saône and the streams that run out of the combes into the plain, outside the hillside appellations.
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: Fz, l3-4.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:39
above the hill
18:51
behind the hill
11.2 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:39 above the hill and disappears at 18:51 behind the hill: 11.2 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 15.4° above the horizon to the south. The relief costs 0.6% of the irradiation from April to October, direct and diffuse together.
| Irradiation | +0.6% versus flat land 1,074 kWh/m² from April to October, 40% 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 | 97.2% 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 | 05:54 | 20:21 | 14.4 h | 15.8 h |
| 20 September | 07:39 | 18:51 | 11.2 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 10:01 | 15:50 | 5.8 h | 8.6 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.
The irradiation loss does include clouds: the average of 2005 to 2023 (PVGIS-SARAH3, EU JRC), not any particular year.
Air and cold
21 m
above the lowest point
drains away
cold air
a main drain
141.0 ha flows past
| Cold air | 21 m above the hollow, cold air drains awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 141.0 ha a main drain, mean over the polygon 4.86 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SSE-NNW
diagonal to the slope
1.07 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SSE-NNW (153°) diagonal to the slope (37°), every 1.07 m, slightly fannedmeasured over 3.7 of 3.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100% abandoned since: 0.04 haassessed over 1.6 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
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
- 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
1.16 ha of 3.84 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- DENIS BOUCHACOURT29%
- SECTION DE POUILLY1%
- private individuals or unknown70%
- 1.12 ha DENIS BOUCHACOURT SCEA · wine business
- 0.04 ha SECTION DE POUILLY COLL · other
Private individuals or unknown: 2.67 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
- La Vernulle Village · 150 m
- Vignes du Riat Premier Cru · 150 m
- La Verchère Regional · 200 m
- Solutré Village · 200 m
- Pré des Aires Village · 250 m
- Vignes de la Fontaine Village · 250 m
- Mont Garcin Village · 300 m
- Lès Gerbeaux Premier Cru · 300 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.