Lieu-dit · Vauciennes
Les Cerisières
Les Cerisières is a lieu-dit in Vauciennes, Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.
1.01 ha
delimited
145 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 | Champagneinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) |
|---|---|
| Village | Vauciennes |
| Region | Vallée de la Marne, Champagne |
| Delimited | 1.01 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 0.96 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 21 |
| Grape variety | meunier 49 %, chardonnay 36 %, pinot noir 15 % 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 | 0%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 30 named plots ranked champagne in Vauciennes, from high to low:
Position
145 m
elevation
20.1%
very steep
NE
northeast
mid-slope
convex ridge
| Elevation | 145 m 134 to 154 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Slope | 20.1% 11.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | northeast 52°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 44% mid slope, on a convex ridge, 181 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 27%Ypresian clay with lignite 56–53 million years
- 73%Campanian chalk with belemnites 78–72 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. The reputation of taut wines with high acidity on chalk runs through water regime, soil depth and the cool climate. A direct transfer of taste from the stone has not been demonstrated.
Pure white writing chalk, built up from the calcareous plates of microscopic plankton that drifted down to the seabed. It is a very soft limestone that crumbles between the fingers, consists of more than ninety per cent lime and can be hundreds of metres thick. Upper Campanian, roughly 78 to 72 million years ago, named after the belemnites and the small brachiopod Magas pumilus; what is characteristic is precisely the scarcity of flint, unlike in the older chalk.
For the vine. Chalk holds a great deal of water in very fine pores and releases it slowly, so the vine comes under stress later in a dry summer than on shallow, stony soils; in extreme years chalk too falls back. Roots follow cracks to several metres deep, while the top few decimetres drain quickly. The soils on this substrate generally have a very high active lime content, to be determined per parcel, which explains the choice in Champagne of 41B and to a lesser extent SO4 and 3309C.
Characteristic of the Côte des Blancs (Cramant, Avize, Le Mesnil-sur-Oger) and the slopes around Épernay.
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: c5b, e4a.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:30
above the hill
18:43
behind the crest of the slope
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 07:30 above the hill and disappears at 18:43 behind the crest of the slope: 11.2 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 9.3° above the horizon to the south-southwest.
| Irradiation | −5.0% versus flat land 944 kWh/m² from April to October, 49% 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 | 99.7% 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 | 05:46 | 21:21 | 15.6 h | 16.2 h |
| 20 September | 07:30 | 18:43 | 11.2 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 09:12 | 15:10 | 6.0 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), 45% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
44 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
0.4 ha flows past
| Cold air | 44 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 0.4 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.09 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
NE-SW
down the slope
1.18 m
between the rows
93%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | NE-SW (38°) down the slope (15°), every 1.18 m, varies by plotmeasured over 0.6 of 1.0 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 93% planted since: 0.04 haassessed over 0.6 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHAMBRECY-CIVC, 150 m, 15.1 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
Who owns land here
0.01 ha of 1.01 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- TELMONT1%
- private individuals or unknown99%
- 0.01 ha TELMONT SAS · other · organic
Private individuals or unknown: 1.00 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
- Les Harengs Champagne · 150 m
- Les Argentières Champagne · 150 m
- Les Violeines Champagne · 200 m
- Les Poncelots Champagne · 200 m
- Plante la Poule Champagne · 200 m
- Les Lois Champagne · 250 m
- Les Harses Champagne · 300 m
- Les Grillons Champagne · 350 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.