The Experience Ticket at the Cité des Climats et Vins de Bourgogne follows Burgundy’s vineyards from vine to glass through an immersive visitor route. Themed guided tours explore subjects from that route in greater depth. A tasting workshop introduces observation, smell and taste through three wines, and the ticket also includes temporary exhibitions on wine’s artistic, cultural and historical dimensions.
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Les Apéritifs de la Tour in Dijon: Unique City Views
Les Apéritifs de la Tour combine a guided visit to the Philippe le Bon tower with a Dijon aperitif. A Tourist Office guide explains the monument’s history before the city opens out in a panoramic view from above. Blanc cassis and appetisers accompany a gougère made exclusively for these tower gatherings.
Gourmet Cycling Trip in Auxerre: Regional Delicacies
The ‘Balade gourmande | Vélo & Saveurs’ offers a cycling route through Burgundy featuring seven regional specialities. The itinerary follows the Canal du Nivernais from Auxerre, stopping at an organic farm for cheese and at a Crémant de Bourgogne tasting. A microbrewery and a wine estate provide further tastings. Burgundy snails and gougères follow in Auxerre, before a drink at a local biscuit factory.
Lundis des Curistes in Salins-les-Bains: A Tasting Event
The Fruitière Vinicole d’Arbois meets spa visitors and other travellers in Salins-les-Bains for a tasting and conversation. Founded by Arbois winegrowers, the cooperative brings the area’s winemaking story into the encounter. The tourist office and ThermaSalina organise the gathering, where holiday advisers also share information for visitors staying in the Jura.
Bienvenue à la ferme Farmers’ Market in Le Breuil: Local Del
The Bienvenue à la ferme market brings around fifteen producers together in Le Breuil. Meat, cheeses, snails, fish, honey, beer, oil and bread make up a cross-section of the stalls, with samples to taste. Organised by the Chamber of Agriculture with the CUCM, the market also creates time to speak directly with producers about their products and know-how.
Coulée du Mont d’Or in Pontarlier: Local Tastes
Mont d’Or takes centre stage in Pontarlier at a feast hosted by Julien Locatelli. Cheese tasting, a wrapping workshop and a Mont d’Or quiz explore the product through flavour, practical skills and play. Cow milking and vintage tractors bring farming into the programme, while wooden games, drawing and a giant slide give families further ways to take part.
Ribesthèque in Nuits-Saint-Georges: Liqueur Tasting
Fruirouge’s Ribesthèque centres on Crème de Cassis de Bourgogne IGP Bio en Sélection Parcellaire, an organic blackcurrant liqueur made with fruit from selected plots. The Olivier family presents rare cuvées from its collection in a historic cellar. Tasting across vintages explores the liqueur’s concentration and the character of its terroir.
Salbris Historical Festival: Roman Experience
Salbris’s historical festival centres its Roman programme on the Year of the Four Emperors. Re-enactment groups and stunt performers stage episodes of conflict, while a historical banquet introduces food associated with antiquity. Nataverne and Prima Nocta provide music after the meal, bringing performance and reconstructed Roman life into the festival.
Farmers’ Market in Montargis: Local Delights
Farmers and craftspeople gather in the central streets of Montargis for a producers’ market and artisan fair. Food stalls provide opportunities to taste local products, alongside handmade goods offered by their makers. The programme brings agricultural produce and small-scale craft into the same town-centre gathering.
Lentil Green Festival in Vatan: Taste & Celebrate
Vatan’s Fête de la lentille verte du Berry puts the region’s emblematic green lentil at the centre of public life. Tastings allow visitors to understand its culinary character, while new-crop sales create direct contact with the people who cultivate and prepare it. A farmers’ and crafts market broadens the celebration to other local products and forms of making, giving the festival a strong rural economy dimension. Street music and parade floats carry the subject beyond the stalls and into the town, joining food culture with collective spectacle. Jérôme Maugis contributes a stage show devoted to Patrick Bruel, adding a familiar popular-music reference to the programme. The festival’s identity remains grounded in the lentil itself: a Berry product encountered through taste, knowledge, trade and the community that celebrates its harvest.