Lieu-dit · Trélou-sur-Marne
Le Champ de l'Alouette
Le Champ de l'Alouette is a lieu-dit in Trélou-sur-Marne, Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.
3.13 ha
delimited
122 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
| Level | Champagneinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) |
|---|---|
| Village | Trélou-sur-Marne |
| Region | Vallée de la Marne, Champagne |
| Delimited | 3.13 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 3.04 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 59 |
| Grape variety | meunier 61 %, chardonnay 22 %, pinot noir 17 % also permitted: arbane, petit meslier, pinot blanc, pinot grisinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 2%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 127 named plots ranked champagne in Trélou-sur-Marne, from high to low:
Position
122 m
elevation
14.5%
steep
SW
southwest
mid-slope
even slope
| Elevation | 122 m 109 to 139 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Slope | 14.5% 8.2°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southwest 231°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 36% mid slope, on an even plane, 603 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 30%Colluvium, mixed slope deposit about 0.1–0 million years
- 45%Lutetian limestone, marl and caillasses about 45–41 million years
- 24%e5a-b age unknown · hatched, outside the column
Sable, calcaire, tuffeau de Damery
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. In Champagne this substrate is associated with a fresher, tighter style than the surrounding sand. The plots are small; the influence is more a nuance in the blend than a style of its own. (weak indication)
Alternation of hard limestone beds, marl and rubbly 'caillasses' from the late Lutetian, Middle Eocene, deposited in a shallow warm sea on the edge of the Paris Basin. In the western Vallée de la Marne it forms a lime-rich step in the slope between the Eocene sand and the Brie plateaus.
For the vine. Shallow, dry and very lime-rich: free-draining and quick to warm, but with a lot of active lime and thus a chlorosis risk. The water regime depends on the marl beds.
Western Vallée de la Marne: Trélou-sur-Marne, Vallées-en-Champagne, Pavant.
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: e5cMC, C, e5a-b.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
08:12
above the hill
19:29
behind the hill
11.3 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 08:12 above the hill and disappears at 19:29 behind the hill: 11.3 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 8.2° above the horizon to the east-northeast.
| Irradiation | +1.9% versus flat land 1,000 kWh/m² from April to October, 46% 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 | 99.6% 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 and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:44 | 21:27 | 14.7 h | 16.2 h |
| 20 September | 08:12 | 19:29 | 11.3 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:56 | 16:37 | 7.7 h | 8.2 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.
Air and cold
25 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a combe
14.4 ha flows past
| Cold air | 25 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 14.4 ha a combe, mean over the polygon 0.80 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
1.00 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (43°) down the slope (9°), every 1.00 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 2.4 of 3.0 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 2.5 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHAMBRECY-CIVC, 150 m, 19.4 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
The name
- champ
- field, from Latin campus. The third most common element in this atlas and usually descriptive: open arable land, often predating the vines. Work and use · 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
0.25 ha of 3.13 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- GASPARD-CREPAUX4%
- LOURDAUT-JAMA4%
- SV2B<1%
- private individuals or unknown92%
- 0.13 ha GASPARD-CREPAUX EARL · wine business
- 0.12 ha LOURDAUT-JAMA GFA · land company
Private individuals or unknown: 2.89 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
- La Moriaude Champagne · 150 m
- Les Grèves Champagne · 200 m
- Au-Dessus du Moulin a Vent Champagne · 200 m
- Les Savarts-Saint-Jean Champagne · 200 m
- Le Fond de la Moriaude Champagne · 250 m
- Les Vignes-Saint-Jean Champagne · 250 m
- Au-Dessous de Goutte d'Or Champagne · 300 m
- La Clauclouriere Champagne · 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.