Sylvie Poillot, General Manager

With her sparkling eyes and her eternal smile, Sylvie manages all aspects of the Domaine de la Vougeraie. From the vineyard to the cellar, she is everywhere, demonstrating her exceptional organizational skills. But her primary concern is always for our customers whom she has been taking care of since 2004.
 
Sylvie stepped into her current role in 2017, bringing an eye for detail and precision that she learned in the demanding luxury hotel business where she worked for a decade after earning her wings in the top-flight restaurant trade.
 
She joined the family in 2002, and today manages the Domaine de la Vougeraie with strength and gentleness, surrounding herself with a dedicated team of native and adopted Burgundians!

Œnologists

Sylvie works hand in hand with Camille Leynaud-Prince who has been at the estate since 2015. She started as an assistant to Pierre Vincent before taking on full responsibility for oenology at the Domaine de la Vougeraie.
Camille is all about precision when it comes to the estate’s wines. Prior to their creation, she works closely with the Vineyard Manager, focusing on the progress of the grapes and on the first samples taken in the summer as the grapes start to ripen and which are key to estimating the date of the harvest.
When it comes to the frenetic fortnight of picking, all her attention is focused on vinification, where every detail counts. Ageing and bottling close the annual loop. The gentle practices of organic and biodynamic viticulture require constant rigor, and Camille has that in spades.
She works with Lucas Lodi. This Franco-Australian oenologist earned his National Diploma in Oenology (DNO) in Toulouse after completing a Master’s degree in Engineering in Lausanne.

The cellar manager, from the shadow to the light

You need a strong body to work in this business, and a strong head, too. Jean-Luc Rousseau stands at 6’2”, and with his broad smile and his unfailing calm, manages several hundred barrels during the ageing process.
In the cellar he prepares the barrels before lining them up to be filled, after which he manages topping them up, cleaning them, and sometimes stirring their contents. He has been with us since 2006, and knows every barrel, caring for them like a father for his babies. He watches over them and helps them grow; raising them to express the best of themselves, and to continue to improve once they leave home!

He has an Oenology Technician diploma that, he says, helps him put words to his knowledge!

The arrival of Jean-Michel Catinot

This native of Burgundy, born in the nearby Saône plain, quickly realised that his vocation lay in the vineyards. Having explored every aspect of them, the vines and the wine cellar hold absolutely no secrets for him, from the plant to vinification.

He has brought rigour and organisation, which are indispensable to the smooth running of our estate which stretches over 40km and 150 parcels of the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune! Inspired by living matter, and by the extraordinary plant that is the vine, he also has a passion for ancient varieties of fruit trees and for flowers. This special connection with nature in both its widest and most intimate sense is fully aligned with our philosophy of magnifying its most precise expression in our day-to-day work.