Lieu-dit · Villy
Sous les Côtes
Sous les Côtes is a lieu-dit in Villy, Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy, whose largest tier is village.
10.0 ha
delimited
179 m
elevation
12.1 h
sun at harvest
Open on the mapWith the boundary, the plots, the sun through the year and the bedrock.
In figures
| Level | Village 78% Regional 22%inao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Village | Villy |
| Region | Chablis en Grand Auxerrois, Burgundy |
| Delimited | 10.0 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (c. 4 September 2026) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 9.74 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (5 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 65 |
| Grape variety | chardonnayinao-cahiers-des-charges (7 September 2026) · dgddi-superficies-produits (7 September 2026) · franceagrimer-observatoire-viticulture (7 September 2026) |
| Organic | 5%agence-bio-cartobio (c. 5 September 2026) · agence-bio-operateurs (5 September 2026) |
Place in the village
Among the 24 named plots ranked village in Villy, from high to low:
Position
179 m
elevation
3.4%
gentle
ENE
east-northeast
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 179 m 174 to 184 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | +0.01 °C by day, relative to the village centre at 181 m, ± 0.00 °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 | 3.4% 1.9°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | east-northeast 73°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 62% upper slope, on an even plane, 105 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 100%Hauterivian limestone with Spatangus about 132–129 million years
In the glass. Usually lighter, fresh white and red wines than on the Kimmeridgian marl lower down the slope. In Chablis this lies outside the core of the grands and premiers crus.
Sandy to marly limestone full of sea urchins (the 'Calcaire à Spatangues'), deposited in a shallow, cool sea in the Hauterivian, Lower Cretaceous. In the Auxerrois and around Chablis it forms the hilltops and plateaus above the Jurassic beds, together with the other Lower Cretaceous units n2 and n4.
For the vine. Moderately deep, lime-rich soil with a fine sandy component: better drained than the Kimmeridgian marl, less water-retentive and slightly quicker to warm. It is the soil of the higher ground in the Auxerrois, often on plateau edges with wind and late frosts.
Auxerrois and Chablisien edge: Saint-Bris-le-Vineux, Auxerre, Quenne, Venoy, Beine, Lignorelles, Maligny, Ligny-le-Châtel, Villy, Bernouil, Dyé, Bleigny-le-Carreau.
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: n3.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:33
above the hill
19:36
behind the crest of the slope
12.1 h
sun at harvest
Grey: sun up, but behind the hill or the vineyard's own slope.
Around harvest the sun rises here at 07:33 above the hill and disappears at 19:36 behind the crest of the slope: 12.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. No hill of note around.
| Irradiation | −0.3% versus flat land 1,010 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) |
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Three reference days and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 05:48 | 21:38 | 15.8 h | 16.0 h |
| 20 September | 07:33 | 19:36 | 12.1 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:39 | 16:40 | 8.0 h | 8.4 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
36 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
1.0 ha flows past
| Cold air | 36 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 1.0 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.09 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
E-W
down the slope
1.04 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | E-W (85°) down the slope (12°), every 1.04 m, varies by plotmeasured over 8.1 of 9.7 ha plantedign-bdortho (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 8.4 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station CHABLIS_SAPC, 141 m, 6.0 km away
raw daily series, not corrected for station breaks
The name
- sur
- above or below something else: sur le chemin, sous le bois. Shape and position · Terroirium, Eigen telling over de namen in deze atlas (2026)
- cote
- slope, the flank of a ridge. The word that gave the whole region its name. Relief · 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
0.06 ha of 10.0 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- SCEA JEAN DURUP PERE ET FILS1%
- private individuals or unknown99%
- 0.06 ha SCEA JEAN DURUP PERE ET FILS SCEA · wine business
Private individuals or unknown: 9.95 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
- Sur la Bavotte Village · 200 m
- Chemin de Saint-Etienne Regional · 250 m
- Vallée du Feu Village · 300 m
- La Bavotte Village · 350 m
- Vallée Goudin Village · 350 m
- Les Côtes Regional · 400 m
- Vaudat Village · 450 m
- Sur le Grand Côtat Village · 450 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.