Listed among the 'most beautiful villages of France', Château-Chalon offers an opportunity to enjoy a break in a superb vineyard. You'll succumb to the charm of the local gastronomy and its famous but mysterious 'vin jaune', or yellow wine.
Indeed, Château-Chalon, a stopping place on the Jura vineyard gourmet road, extends many invitations to sample local products, including wine tours, great restaurants, delicious shopping sprees, food artisans and much more.
The exceptional white wines of the Château-Chalon AOC
Unveil the mysteries of vin jaune
Go exploring the vineyard of 'Revermont' to visit the wine estates and meet the winegrowers of the Château-Chalon appellation. This small vineyard of just 60 hectares produces exclusively vin jaune, from a single grape variety, savagnin.
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Maison de la Haute Seille, a wine tourism site
The Maison de la Haute Seille is a culture centre and wine tourism venue. Discover the local heritage through its exhibitions, a tasting area, an escape room, various activities, artistic events and much more…
This historic building also offers beautiful views over the Château-Chalon vineyard.
A tasting session at the Wine Cooperative of Voiteur
Fancy tasting some of the typical wines of Jura? From Côte du Jura to Macvin and vin jaune… The Voiteur wine cooperative brings together around sixty winegrowers who harvest their grapes from more than 70 hectares of vines of the traditional Jura varieties: savagnin, chardonnay, pinot noir, trousseau, poulsard…
Annie and Jean-Claude invite you to come and taste the famous and enigmatic vin jaune. Located in the village of Château-Chalon, the Domaine Credoz has a tasting cellar where you can also try the other wines produced in Jura: Côtes du Jura in white and red, Macvin, crémant etc.
The Domaine Berthet-Bondet boasts 15 hectares of vines in the Jura terroir. Chantal and Jean Berthet-Bondet produce wines of the Château-Chalon and Côtes du Jura appellations: white wines that are topped up regularly or aged under flor yeast, two red wines and a Crémant. Contact the winegrowers to book a session in the tasting cellar.
Two sophisticated restaurants serving the mouthwatering specialities of Jura
Gourmet restaurants that showcase the best of Jura
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Le Bouchon du Château
Jura gastronomy is under the spotlight at this beautiful restaurant with a terrace opening onto the Château-Chalon panoramic viewpoint. Le Bouchon du Château showcases local products, including the typical threesome of morels, Comté cheese and vin jaune.
Lucie and Olivier extend a warm welcome and serve pleasant, creative dishes in a modern, sophisticated setting.
The gourmet restaurant at Hostellerie Saint-Germain also gives pride of place to the local products of Jura. Not to mention the amazing wine list! Bearing the name of its chef, La Table de Marc Tupin creates unique dishes that bring out the best in vin jaune, Comté cheese, zander, Morteau sausages, etc. A modern restaurant oozing with charm.
Suggestions for exploring the villages and vineyards
A breath of fresh air among the grapevines
A walk in the vineyards of Les Byards and Voiteur
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This walk takes you to admire the impressive hillside vineyards arranged in an amphitheatre layout. It features a viewpoint indicator from which you can enjoy the superb vineyard scenery.
Go exploring the charming village of Passenans, with its fountains, its panoramic viewpoint, its streams and of course the beautiful Jura vineyard, all clinging to the foothills of the Premier Plateau which formed more than 200 million years ago.
This last vineyard walk takes you from the winegrowing village ofLavigny to the Ravaillac footpath, on the first foothills of the Jura Mountains. You'll explore along streets that ooze with history and enjoy the superb vineyard landscape.
A walk in Chaumois-Boivin to see a 19th-century milk transporter
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This bucolic walk features an ancient milk transporter, a cable system created in 1893 to carry down the slope, from the hamlet of Chaumois-Boivin to the village dairy of Blois-sur-Seille, the churns of milk required in the production of Comté cheese.
Truly one of a kind, vin jaune is made through a specific ageing method. As the wine matures, a veil of yeast develops at its surface, protecting the wine from oxidisation and depriving it of any contact with the surrounding air. This veil of yeast is what gives vin jaune its mysterious organoleptic characteristics of such complexity.
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Epicurean tour in the Jura vineyard
👍 Come and explore a particularly generous land, between Lons-le-Saunier and Salins-les-Bains. You'll discover that Comté country is also heaven for fans of Jura wines.
On this trip for gastronomy fans, you'll stop off in villages and towns of character such as Poligny, Arbois and of course Château-Chalon, the home of vin jaune.
