Lieu-dit · Verneuil
La Edenne
La Edenne is a lieu-dit in Verneuil, Vallée de la Marne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.
1.99 ha
delimited
160 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 | Verneuil |
| Region | Vallée de la Marne, Champagne |
| Delimited | 1.99 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 1.89 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 23 |
| Grape variety | meunier 67 %, pinot noir 18 %, chardonnay 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 56 named plots ranked champagne in Verneuil, from high to low:
Position
160 m
elevation
21.5%
very steep
SE
southeast
upper
convex ridge
| Elevation | 160 m 146 to 170 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Slope | 21.5% 12.1°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | southeast 130°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 56% upper slope, on a convex ridge, 568 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 64%Sand of Beauchamp, Bartonian about 41–38 million years
- 36%Lutetian limestone and caillasses 48–41 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. Tends towards approachable, fruity base wines with softer acidity than on the chalk. For sparkling wine that is mainly a matter of blending and house style; the sand itself does not determine the style.
Fine, well-sorted quartz sand with locally cemented sandstone beds, deposited in a shallow sea and along the coast in the Bartonian, Middle Eocene. In Champagne this sand lies halfway up the slope, above the clay and the Lutetian limestone and below the limestone and meulière of the Brie plateaus. The same formation as e6aB on other map sheets.
For the vine. Light, poor, free-draining and quick to warm, with little active lime; drought-prone in a warm summer, but in the cool Champagne climate above all an early, even budburst and good drainage. On these sandy slopes in the Vallée de la Marne and the western Montagne de Reims there is a great deal of Meunier.
Vallée de la Marne and western Montagne de Reims: Chaumuzy, Cuchery, Cuisles, Dormans, Olizy, Jonquery, Champlat-et-Boujacourt, Chambrecy, Lagery, Brouillet.
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: e6B, e5b.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:38
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 07:38 above the hill and disappears at 18:51 behind the hill: 11.2 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 10.6° above the horizon to the southwest.
| Irradiation | +2.5% versus flat land 1,015 kWh/m² from April to October, 45% 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 | 99.4% 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 | 05:47 | 20:28 | 14.7 h | 16.2 h |
| 20 September | 07:38 | 18:51 | 11.2 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:39 | 15:37 | 7.0 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), 30% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
58 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
a gully
2.1 ha flows past
| Cold air | 58 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 2.1 ha a gully, mean over the polygon 0.38 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
SE-NW
down the slope
1.27 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | SE-NW (127°) down the slope (3°), every 1.27 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 1.8 of 1.9 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 1.9 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHAMBRECY-CIVC, 150 m, 14.3 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
Who owns land here
No parcel here is registered to a legal entity. In France only those owners are public; parcels of private individuals are not.
Nearby lieux-dits
- La Fauconnerie Champagne · 100 m
- Les Fourneaux Champagne · 150 m
- Le Fond du Boeuf Champagne · 200 m
- Le Verre de Vin Champagne · 300 m
- Les Gravière Champagne · 350 m
- Le Bois du Pré Champagne · 400 m
- Vide Bourse Champagne · 850 m
- Brise Jambe Champagne · 900 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.