Wine producers, artisan breads and cheeses fill the Halles de Beaune for Pains Vins Fromages. The tasting pairs wines from several vineyards with five cheese plates, highlighting cheeses from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Tourism students from Lycée Clos Maire organise the salon and welcome guests at the stands, with a tasting glass included in admission.
Region: Burgundy-Franche-Comté
Fêtes de la Vigne Archives
Original documents from Dijon’s Municipal Archives trace the origins and changing character of Les Fêtes de la Vigne. The exhibition examines the festival’s roots in Burgundy’s wine-growing traditions alongside local folklore. Its international and multicultural connections emerge through the records, with guided visits offering another way into this chapter of Dijon’s public life.
Biou de Montholier
Biou de Montholier is a grape-harvest celebration rooted in the religious traditions of the Jura vineyards. The village gathering is organised by the Comité des Fêtes de Montholier, whose volunteers also run local festivities. The custom is also celebrated in Arbois, Pupillin and Vadans, linking Montholier with other Jura winegrowing villages.
Grande Saline Guided Visit
Beneath Salins-les-Bains, a working wheel, wooden rocker arm and pump reveal how brine was drawn from the Grande Saline’s wells. The guided route continues into the evaporation room, where harvesting tools and France’s last surviving salt pan explain the salt workers’ craft. The Salt Museum and a saltwater evaporation workshop extend the visit beyond the underground gallery.
Vaille que vaille at Savigny
The Sans Attendre collective revisits the Copiaus troupe in Vaille que vaille, a cabaret commissioned by Maison Jacques Copeau. Actors and comic mischief bring this chapter of Burgundy’s theatre history into the performance. The package pairs the show with estate wine and a regional meal of Cîteaux and Comté gougères, roast pork and apple tart.
Pinot Noir Côte de Beaune Tasting
Domaine Loubet-Dewailly’s Discovery session uses a horizontal tasting to compare Pinot Noir across the Côte de Beaune. Burgundy red, Maranges, Beaune Premier Cru Les Epenottes and Pommard Premier Cru Les Grands Epenots are placed side by side, keeping the grape and harvest consistent while the appellations change. That structure directs attention toward differences between neighbouring terroirs while minimizing the effects created by bottle age. Five generations of family winegrowing inform the comparison, served at the domaine’s cellar near Beaune’s Hospices and Collégiale Notre-Dame. Guests can order other estate wines by the glass, while gougères, charcuterie, cheese or aligot provide regional accompaniments. The central exercise remains a close reading of red Burgundy through place, with each neighbouring appellation given room to show its own character.
Domaine Besancenot Wine Sale Tasting
Domaine Besancenot draws on six generations of Beaune winemaking for a tasting of two white and four red wines. Chorey-les-Beaune and Beaune Premier Cru Les Cent Vignes feature among the whites, with Clos du Roi and Grèves among the reds. Each tasting includes gougères and an engraved glass, pairing the estate’s Burgundian wines with a regional cheese pastry.
Burgundy Wine Tasting Day
This Burgundy tasting day begins with the practice of looking, smelling and tasting white wines, reds and Crémant de Bourgogne. Wine storage, service and food pairings form part of the teaching. A landscape reading in the Grands Crus of the Côte de Beaune follows lunch, before a guided tasting explores terroirs and vintages through the wines in the glass.
Louis Jadot Hospices Cellar Tasting
Maison Louis Jadot marks the Hospices de Beaune wine sale with a visit to its winery and ageing cellars. A tasting of ten wines follows, organised around three themes. The selection brings together the vintage currently maturing, a Hospices de Beaune cuvée and several house classics, keeping the cellar visit closely connected to the wines in the glass.
Bulle à Parfums and Jura Wines
La Bulle à Parfums brings designer fragrances together with Jura wines for Vignobles en Scène in Darbonnay. Its founder, perfume consultant Tiphaine Fougere, previously worked in a Paris perfumery laboratory alongside fragrance creators. Her work centres on identifying individual scent preferences and matching them to rare or designer perfumes.