Marylène Bovard-Chervet

Marylène Bovard-Chervet has been winemaker at Château de Praz-Vully, Switzerland, since 2011, shaping wines from a place where precision and restraint matter as much as instinct. Before taking on that role, she was oenologist there in 2011, already working close to the pulse of the cellar and the character of the fruit. Her approach remains grounded in that same intimacy: a hands-on, measured craft that keeps the work near the product and lets the wines speak in their own register. At Château de Praz-Vully, her cellar philosophy is deliberately unobtrusive. Marylène favors minimal intervention, a method that aims to preserve the typicity of each vintage and each variety rather than mask it. The idea is not to impose a style so much as to protect what is already there: the natural contours of the year, the subtleties of the grape, the quiet distinctions that make one harvest different from the next. In a world that can sometimes lean toward excess, her work is defined by clarity, patience, and a respect for nuance. That sense of restraint does not mean rigidity. For some white wines, she uses clay amphorae, introducing an ancient vessel into a contemporary cellar with purpose rather than spectacle. The amphorae are used to build aromatic depth and palate complexity, adding another dimension to wines that already rely on balance and precision. It is a thoughtful choice, one that suggests Marylène’s confidence in texture and evolution as much as in freshness and definition. Her signature wines include Traminer Vully AOC, a name that sits comfortably within her broader philosophy: varietal character, place, and careful winemaking brought into clear focus. The wine belongs to the same conversation that runs through her work at Château de Praz-Vully — a conversation about fidelity to origin, about letting each vintage arrive with its own accent, and about drawing elegance from understatement.