Blaise Duboux

The Climb

At Domaine Blaise Duboux in Epesses, Vaud, Switzerland, the work is set against the terraces of Lavaux and carried by a deliberately restrained hand. Blaise Duboux is the owner, winemaker, and oenologist there, and the brief he gives his own cellar is direct: “I want the most natural wine possible.” In practice, that puts method before display, with the craft organized around precision, restraint, and close attention to place. Chasselas sits at the center of that thinking: “The one that matters a lot to me is Chasselas; it is the one from this region.”

Today

The role of winemaker and oenologist at Domaine Blaise Duboux asks for constant judgment, moving between vineyard and cellar and between what the site offers and what intervention should be withheld. In a region where viticulture is part of the landscape itself, Blaise Duboux’s work reads as disciplined and rooted in place, with the goal of letting the wine remain legible as a product of its own origin. Ownership, winemaking, and oenology all sit in the same hands at Domaine Blaise Duboux. That concentration keeps responsibility across the full life of the estate, from the ground up through the bottle, and makes the estate itself the focus rather than any decorative flourish around it.

Signature

Cuvée Vincent, Plant Robez 2014, Dézaley grand cru Corniche, OCTO, and Le Paon are the named signatures associated with Blaise Duboux. Read together, they point to a cellar with its own internal structure, where each label carries a specific role in the estate’s vocabulary. The range is regional in register and anchored in expression rather than ornament, with the work of the owner-winemaker-oenologist showing through in the names that define the house.

In Their Words “The one that matters a lot to me is Chasselas; it is the one from this region.” “For me, it is definitely the connection between the vegetal and the animals.” Taken together, these lines set out the terms of the work: attachment to a regional grape and an interest in the relationship between vegetal and animal life. The language is spare, but it places the craft inside a larger system of living parts, where wine is shaped by what the estate can hold in balance.

Recognition

Blaise Duboux has received VINUM, "Fabuleux Swiss Wine Estates" distinction (2025). The vineyard is certified organic by bio-inspecta (CH-BIO-006). That certification formalizes the direction already stated in the work itself: a natural-minded approach, made legible through an external standard that matches the estate’s stated method.