Winemaker
Pauline Felettig
Winemaker, Domaine Felettig
- Discipline
- Winemaker
- Based in
- Chambolle-Musigny, France
i. Biography
In Chambolle-Musigny, Domaine Felettig is a working frame for decisions made between row and cellar. The emphasis is not on expanding yield for ease, but on managing the vine toward smaller berries and greater flavor concentration. Trellis height, canopy restraint, and the choice not to hedge are practical interventions; their value is measured later, when the fruit shows what the season and the vineyard work have allowed. Since 2022, the cellar and vineyard work at Domaine Felettig has included Pauline Felettig alongside her father. The change is generational without being a rupture: vineyard decisions remain tied to the family line, while the handling of canopy, yield, and berry size is being adjusted with a clear view toward the wines’ future shape.
The Climb
Today, Pauline Felettig has joined her father in the cellar at Domaine Felettig, helping drive the domaine’s vineyard changes since 2022. The path into this work is defined by proximity to Chambolle-Musigny, the family domaine, the cellar, and the vines. At Domaine Felettig, cellar work receives the consequences of vineyard choices rather than standing apart from them. Pauline Felettig’s role sits at that junction: inherited knowledge on one side, present-tense viticultural adjustment on the other.
Today
At Domaine Felettig in Chambolle-Musigny, France, Pauline Felettig is bringing renewed energy to the domaine while driving changes in the vineyard. The most concrete of those changes are higher trellising and no hedging, measures aimed at smaller, less productive berries with naturally higher concentration. Canopy management after her return to the domaine has been adjusted in some top sites with the same objective: lower yields, reduced berry size, and increased flavor concentration. The vocabulary is agricultural and exact: trellis height, canopy, yield, berry size, concentration. Each term marks a point of control over how the vine allocates energy, how fruit ripens, and how intensity is built through limitation rather than volume. Top vineyard sites such as Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Reignots and Petits-Monts place this work in parcels where small choices carry weight. In those sites, precision is not an aesthetic claim; it is the daily practice of observing closely, intervening carefully, and treating concentration as something that begins before the fruit reaches the cellar.
Signature
Pauline's signature wines include Echézeaux, Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Reignots, Petits-Monts, and Domaine Felettig Chambolle-Musigny Les Gruenchers 1er Cru Red. These wines define the working ground: named parcels and bottlings where vineyard handling is expected to register in the glass. Their relevance here is not only reputational. They connect the domaine’s choices around trellising, hedging, canopy, yield, and berry size to the practical aim of fruit concentration.
Recognition
The clearest recognition around Pauline Felettig is tied to continuity and responsibility at Domaine Felettig. Following Henri Felettig and Gilbert Felettig, she now carries the family work forward at the domaine while making visible changes in the vineyards. This is not an awards-led account. The standing comes from the sites worked and from the viticultural changes now in motion. Higher trellising, no hedging, and adjusted canopy management are concrete markers of a producer seeking concentration from the fruit itself. At Domaine Felettig, the next phase is being shaped through refinement of vineyard conditions rather than a break from the family practice.
Profile updated July 2026
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Work in top vineyard sites including Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Reignots and Petits-Monts.
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