Lieu-dit · Vitry-en-Perthois
Le Jardin le Meunier
Le Jardin le Meunier is a lieu-dit in Vitry-en-Perthois, Côte de Sézanne, Champagne, whose largest tier is champagne.
4.79 ha
delimited
163 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 | Champagneinao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) |
|---|---|
| Village | Vitry-en-Perthois |
| Region | Côte de Sézanne, Champagne |
| Delimited | 4.79 hainao-aoc-viticoles-bulk (not in this commune) · cadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) |
| Planted | 4.57 hacadastre-etalab (4 September 2026) · ign-bdtopo-vigne (4 September 2026) · ign-rpg-2024 (5 September 2026) |
| Parcels | 12 |
| Grape variety | chardonnay 100 % 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 7 named plots ranked champagne in Vitry-en-Perthois, from high to low:
Position
163 m
elevation
14.8%
steep
S
south
upper
even slope
| Elevation | 163 m 148 to 182 mign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Daytime temperature | −0.03 °C not measurable: smaller than the uncertainty. by day, relative to the village centre at 158 m, ± 0.04 °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 | 14.8% 8.4°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| Aspect | south 191°ign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
| On the slope | 61% upper slope, on an even plane, 61 m drains onto itign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Bedrock
- 33%Turonian white chalk, locally flint-bearing 91.5–89.8 million years
- 67%Lower Turonian marly chalk 93.9–92.5 million years
Not a borehole: ordered by age, thickness by share of surface.
In the glass. It is to be expected that the wine turns out firmer and broader than on white chalk, but the area is small and nothing has been recorded about it. (weak indication)
Grey to grey-green marly chalk, poor in flint, which forms the base of the Turonian; the thickness differs per map sheet, see the notice. When dry it is hard and compact; when wet the marly character comes to the fore and it becomes greasy and sticky. Lower Turonian, roughly 93.9 to about 92.5 million years old, the zone of Mytiloides labiatus (the former Inoceramus labiatus).
For the vine. More clayey and denser than the white chalk above it, so less permeable and slower to warm up: spring starts later and wet plots stay cold for a long time. Against that stands a good water reserve, which counts in dry years. Rooting goes less deep than in porous chalk, while the lime content of the soil remains just as high.
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: c2b, c2c.
brgm-bdcharm50 (4 September 2026)Sun and horizon
07:37
over the crest of the slope
19:41
behind the hill
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 07:37 over the crest of the slope and disappears at 19:41 behind the hill: 12.1 hours of direct sun on a clear day. The ridge reaches 10.0° above the horizon to the north.
| Irradiation | +3.7% versus flat land 1,043 kWh/m² from April to October, 44% 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) |
|---|
Three reference days and the caveat
| rise | set | sun | day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June | 06:23 | 21:10 | 14.8 h | 16.2 h |
| 20 September | 07:37 | 19:41 | 12.1 h | 12.3 h |
| 21 December | 08:33 | 16:47 | 8.2 h | 8.3 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), 15% of the far field is forest (BD Forêt), no buildings.
Air and cold
29 m
above the lowest point
drains far away
cold air
little inflow
0.6 ha flows past
| Cold air | 29 m high on the slope, cold air drains far awayign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Cold air passing through | 0.6 ha little inflow, mean over the polygon 0.08 haign-rge-alti (5 September 2026) |
Planting
N-S
down the slope
1.08 m
between the rows
100%
vineyard in 1950
| Rows | N-S (2°) down the slope (9°), every 1.08 m, all rows parallelmeasured over 4.6 of 4.6 ha plantedign-bdortho (6 September 2026) |
|---|---|
| Vineyard in 1950 | 100%assessed over 4.2 ha on the 1950-1965 aerial photographign-photos-historiques-1950-1965 (6 September 2026) |
Climate over time
station ST-DIZIER, 139 m, 24.2 km away
growing season, April to October: 1951-1980: 14.4 °C, 1991-2020: 15.9 °C
Huglin index: 1951-1980: 1,570, 1991-2020: 1,842
last spring frost: 1951-1980: day 119, 1991-2020: day 103
series homogenised through 2022
The name
- jardin
- garden. Vegetation · Gérard Taverdet, Noms de lieux de Bourgogne (2007)
This is about the words, not about this plot: the same name can have arisen differently elsewhere.
Who owns land here
1.18 ha of 4.79 ha delimited is registered to a legal entity
- KATYA CATTANI20%
- SCEV DU GRADON4%
- private individuals or unknown75%
- 0.97 ha KATYA CATTANI SAS · other · bare ownership
- 0.21 ha SCEV DU GRADON SCEA · wine business
Private individuals or unknown: 3.61 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
- Le Bas du Mont de Fourche Champagne · 500 m
- Le Mont de Fourche Champagne · 550 m
- Les Brodelles Champagne · 1.1 km
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.