Village interpretation centre at Chateau-Chalon with a vaulted cellar and a panoramic terrace where staff run paid initiations to vin jaune, vin de paille and Macvin.
Tip: Groups of 12 or more must book ahead; the summer programme adds sessions led by Chateau-Chalon growers.
Address: 26 rue de l'Eglise, 39210 Chateau-Chalon, France, Jura
Jerome Arnoux pours his Arbois and Cotes du Jura range in a Gothic cellar listed as a Monument Historique, a few steps off the Arbois main street.
Tip: Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 12:30 and 14:30 to 19:00, then seven days a week through July and August.
Father-and-son cellar door at Montigny-les-Arsures working six hectares under lutte raisonnee, pouring Arbois in white, red and vin jaune.
Tip: Call ahead: the Aviet family runs the caveau around vineyard work rather than to fixed hours.
Wine-tourism building opened in 2014 above the Sud Revermont vines, where a self-service fountain pours Cotes du Jura by the glass under a roof terrace.
Tip: Named after the dry-stone vineyard huts of the Jura, locally caborde, caborne or cadole.
Patrick and Adrien work seven hectares at Aiglepierre north of Arbois and receive visitors in the caveau for commented tastings of Cremant, Macvin and vin jaune.
Tip: Monday to Saturday by appointment, English and Spanish spoken, and the estate takes campervans under France Passion.
Raphael and Adeline Fumey started with 56 ares in the mid 1980s and now farm 17 hectares at Montigny-les-Arsures, with son Marin back from harvests abroad.
Tip: The range covers vin jaune, vin de paille, Macvin and Cremant alongside the still Arbois bottlings.
Four generations of the Benoit family on the Pupillin slopes, now run by Benjamin Benoit, with hand harvesting and a limited Arbois-Pupillin production.
Tip: Pupillin sits 3 km from Arbois and 9 km from Poligny, so the cellar fits neatly into a half day.
