The vineyard's working capital, where a decree of 15 May 1936 created the first French wine AOC. Reds dominate the plantings on irised marl and limestone scree.
Arbois house with parcels spread across Arbois, Cotes du Jura and L'Etoile, harvesting entirely by hand and bottling Cremant, whites, reds, vin jaune, vin de paille and Macvin.
Tasting: Tasting and sales at the Arbois shop in the town centre; the working cellars sit on the route de Dole edge of town.
Tip: The range is split into floral whites and typed sous voile whites, which makes it an easy place to learn the difference.
Arbois estate started in 1953 on 33 hectares, of which 16 are Savagnin, farmed organically and biodynamically and a member of the Biodyvin syndicate.
Tasting: Open weekdays 9am to 5.30pm; weekends and holidays by appointment. Guided cellar visit with commented tasting, groups up to 50, and a dining room seating 80.
Tip: A glass-ended barrel in the vaulted cellar lets you see the yeast voile forming on the vin jaune.
Founded in 1991 by Evelyne and Pascal Clairet to make Arbois without chemistry, keeping local practice while trialling ouille Savagnin and passerillage on the vine.
Tasting: Tasting at the domaine on Petite Place in Arbois; the family also runs the Bistrot de la Tournelle by the Cuisance river in season.
Tip: Their riverside bistrot is the easiest place in Arbois to drink the wines with food rather than at a counter.
Benedicte and Stephane Tissot farm 35 hectares from Montigny-les-Arsures in organics and biodynamics, bottling named terroirs such as Les Bruyeres, La Mailloche, En Barberon and Curon.
Tasting: Tasting at the sales caveau on Place de la Liberte in Arbois; the working estate sits at Quartier Bernard in Montigny-les-Arsures.
Tip: Do not confuse this house with Jacques Tissot or Jean-Louis Tissot in the same commune; all three are separate businesses.
Arbois house created by Jacques Tissot in 1962 from a plot inherited from his father, now 30 hectares run with his children Nathalie and Philippe under lutte raisonnee.
Tasting: Tasting and sales at two Arbois caveaux, 39 rue de Courcelles near the Pasteur house and 32 Grande Rue under the arcades; group visits to the Les Bruyeres cellar by appointment.
Tip: Separate business from Andre et Mireille Tissot and from Jean-Louis Tissot; check the street address before you book.
Family estate on the Pupillin road out of Arbois, 8 hectares in Arbois and 2 in Cotes du Jura, hand-harvested and with every white raised in oak barrel.
Tasting: Open Monday to Saturday 9am to 6.30pm, Sunday by appointment. Free tasting, cellar visits and groups up to 60 by arrangement.
Tip: Certified Terra Vitis, and one of the few Arbois cellars open through the lunch hour six days a week.
Demeter-certified Arbois estate on 9 hectares spread over lieux-dits including Les Corvees, Grand Curoulet, Clos Maire and La Bergere, with every wine made from its own fruit.
Tasting: Tasting at the Arbois cellar; contact the domaine to arrange a visit.
Tip: Michel-Henri and Francoise now work with their son Quentin, and the cellar keeps handling to a minimum.
Cooperative set up on 4 January 1906 by 26 Arbois growers after phylloxera, it pressed for the AOC system and bottles under the Chateau Bethanie name from a cellar built in 1969.
Tasting: Tasting and sales at the Chateau Bethanie site; the separate Place de la Liberte shop is closed for building works.
Tip: Its Savagnin cellar, created in 1993, holds 3,000 Burgundy pieces of 228 litres, which is why the vin jaune range runs deep.
Family estate created in 1973 on 10.3 hectares at Les Arsures and Montigny-les-Arsures, on soils that suit Trousseau and Ploussard, vinified variety by variety and parcel by parcel.
Tasting: Cellar visit and tasting Monday to Saturday, 9.30am to 12pm and 2pm to 6pm, preferably by appointment; groups of about 25 by arrangement. Closed Sundays and holidays.
Tip: Certified Haute Valeur Environnementale since 2013 and converting to organics from the 2019 harvest onward.
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.
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.
Family estate on the Pupillin road out of Arbois, 3.5 hectares certified by Ecocert, planted with all five Jura grapes and open for cellar-door tasting.
Tip: The cellar sits on the lane that climbs from Arbois to Pupillin, an easy walk from the town centre.
Arbois bistrot and natural-wine bar on Place de Faramand, serving lunch Tuesday to Saturday and opening as a bar only in the evening.
The list: Natural-wine list built around Jura growers, poured at the bar in the evening when the kitchen is closed
Pours: Ploussard, Savagnin sous voile
Tip: Wednesday lunch is a vegetarian plat du jour; evenings are drinks rather than dinner.
Summer-only garden bar run by Evelyne and Pascal Clairet of Domaine de la Tournelle, set beside the Cuisance with charcuterie boards and no indoor fallback.
The list: Glasses of Domaine de la Tournelle alongside bottles from friends of the estate, with takeaway at cellar-door prices
Pours: Uva Arbosiana, Savagnin de Voile
Tip: Opens evenings across July and August only, closes in rain, and takes no reservations by phone or email.
Small Arbois dining room on the bank of the Cuisance run by Lisa and Jerome, whose signature plate is trout from Les Planches stuffed with morels in a vin jaune sauce.
Awards: Michelin Guide 2026
Tip: The wine list gives most of its space to Jura growers; the terrace is the seat to ask for.
Bourgeois house in Arbois where Meilleur Ouvrier de France sommelier Philippe Troussard matches a list of more than 1,000 references to the kitchen's plates.
Awards: Michelin Guide 2026
Tip: The terrace looks over the park and the Cuisance to the Arbois vineyard on the slope beyond.
Long-running Arbois tavern on avenue Louis Pasteur serving the regional repertoire every day, lunch and dinner, with Jura bottles alongside.
Tip: Open daily 11:30 to 14:30 and 18:30 to 22:30, running to 23:00 on Saturday and Sunday.
Dining room and terrace at Les Planches-pres-Arbois looking onto the waterfall, cooking seasonal local and organic produce with a Jura list.
Tip: It sits in the reculee above Arbois, so pair lunch with the Cascade des Tufs walk.
Shop of Domaine Maire et Fils on Place de la Liberte in Arbois, carrying the house range in the line that Henri Maire built and running commented tastings.
Tip: Open all year Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 to 12:30 and 13:30 to 18:30.
Seated tasting workshop at the Arbois co-operative built around five glasses, teaching how to read Jura wines before the cellar visit.
Tip: The co-operative also runs an Apprentis Vignerons version for children, in three short hands-on stations.
Cafe-velo in the Arbois station building hiring out e-bikes, gravel bikes and cargo bikes for the lanes through the vines to the waterfalls and wine villages.
Tip: Starting at the station lets you arrive by train from Besancon or Lons and ride straight into the vineyard.
Guided package from the Arbois co-operative pairing a walk through the streets of the wine town with a visit to the cellars and a tasting.
Tip: Book through the co-operative's oenotourisme page rather than at the counter; places are limited.
A harvest offering documented at Arbois since 1665. White and black grapes are fixed in alternating bands on a straw frame to make one large bunch, which is carried through the town and presented in the church.
Pours: Arbois whites, Trousseau, Poulsard, Vin jaune
Tip: Admission is free. Since 1922 a grape crown has been built alongside the Biou itself, and the whole thing is the file France has put to UNESCO for the intangible heritage list, with the committee sitting late in 2026.
Vadans is one of the twelve Arbois communes and keeps its own Biou, a procession built round the same grape offering as Arbois but on a village scale, with the bunch carried from the Place de la Liberte.
Pours: Arbois whites, Trousseau, Poulsard
Tip: No date rule is published for this one, so check the commune listing rather than assuming the Arbois Sunday. It usually falls three weeks after Arbois, which makes a two-Biou September trip possible.
Vineyard museum in Chateau Pecauld at Arbois since 1993, starting in the planted vines around the building and continuing into the cellars and vinification rooms.
Tip: Guided visits run daily at 10:30, 14:30 and 16:30 in July and August, and by appointment the rest of the year.
Pasteur's family house and his only surviving personal laboratory, on the Cuisance at Arbois, with the notebooks and flasks from his work on wine fermentation.
Tip: Pasteur studied fermentation here with the help of Arbois growers, which is why the house carries a Vignobles et Decouvertes label.
Five-star Relais et Chateaux house in a park at Port-Lesney north of Arbois, with a 500 m2 Caudalie vinotherapie spa and two restaurants.
Tip: The vinotherapie packages start at 140 EUR per person and include half a day in the wellness area.
Guest house on rue de Bourgogne in Arbois, on the same street as the Reine Jeanne cellar and a short walk from the Place de la Liberte.
Tip: It takes private events and full buyouts as well as individual rooms.
Hotel in a former coaching house on rue de Courcelles in Arbois, on the same street as the Pasteur house and minutes from the town's cellars.
Tip: Central Arbois parking is tight; the hotel is the easiest base for walking between caveaux.
Hotel in the former Carmelite convent of Arbois, a few doors from Place de la Liberte and the Domaine Maire shop.
Tip: The building dates its name to 1643, when the Carmelites settled in Arbois.
Logis hotel on the Villette road out of Arbois, serving a menu terroir built on Jura produce alongside the regional wine list.
Tip: It sits on the D53 just outside the town, which makes it the easier option if you are driving the vineyard road.
Hotel and restaurant in a garden on the river at the Besancon edge of Arbois, with a wellness area and a shaded terrace.
Tip: The dining room is air conditioned, which matters in the Jura's hot August spells.
Blending workshop in the co-operative cellar at Arbois, where the estate's vignerons walk you through building a blend from component wines.
Tip: Book through the co-operative's oenotourisme page; the workshop runs inside the working cellar.
Self-guided bike route through the Arbois vineyard with interpretation boards along the way, ending back at the co-operative with a four-wine tasting.
Tip: At 25 EUR it includes the tasting; hire the bike separately at the station if you arrive by train.
Guided tour of the Arbois co-operative site, its history and the vinification cellar, closing with four wines tasted in the Maison 1906 or the chateau caveau.
Tip: The co-operative marked 120 years in 2026, and the tour is built around that history.
Group visit at the Pasteur house in Arbois retracing his work on fermentation and the growers who helped him, finishing with four Jura wines in the co-operative cellar.
Tip: Reserve on 03 84 66 11 72; the tasting takes place at the Fruitiere Vinicole d'Arbois, not at the house.
Caudalie vinotherapie treatment at Port-Lesney with half a day in the 500 m2 wellness area and a glass of champagne or a soft drink on arrival.
Tip: Non-residents can book it, which makes it a rainy-afternoon option between cellar visits.
Founded in 1953 by Roger Martin and now 34 hectares at Arbois. The estate converted all its surfaces to organic farming in 1999 and started biodynamics in 2009, and appears on the Biodyvin member list.
Tip: The estate address is on the RN83 but the shop is in town at 8 rue de l'Hotel de Ville, open Tuesday to Saturday 10h to 12h30 and 14h30 to 19h. Go to the shop unless you have booked the cellar.
Benedicte and Stephane Tissot work 35 hectares from Montigny-les-Arsures with a shop on the main square in Arbois. Biodyvin carries the estate as Domaine Tissot, Montigny les Arsures.
Tip: The estate publishes technical sheets for its cuvees, which is rarer in the Jura than it should be and makes it the easiest place to check what a parcel wine is actually made of.
Michel-Henri and Francoise Ratte farm nine hectares at Arbois and describe their wines as made en bio et biodynamie, across Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, Trousseau and Pinot Noir.
Tip: The estate calls Savagnin by its other local name, Nature, on its own grape pages. Useful to know when you are reading a Jura label that does not say Savagnin anywhere.
Philippe and Melanie Dugois farm 10.3 hectares at Les Arsures with Haute Valeur Environnementale certification since 2013, and the estate gives the 2019 vintage as its first harvest in conversion to organic.
Tip: Open Monday to Friday 10h to 12h and 14h to 18h, Saturday by appointment, closed Sundays and public holidays. Trousseau is the reason to come.
Evelyne and Pascal Clairet have made wine at 5 Petite Place in Arbois since 1991, farming organically under Ecocert and describing their wines as made without additives and without buying in fruit.
Tip: The Bistrot de la Tournelle opened in the estate's garden by the Cuisance in 2006 and is the place to drink the wines rather than just taste them. Ring 03 84 66 25 76 for the season's days.