Pauline Vauthier

The Climb

Manager at Château Ausone is a role built on continuity, not theatrics. In Pauline Vauthier’s case, the post puts her inside one of Saint-Émilion’s most closely watched addresses, where the work is measured in judgment, timing, and the ability to hold a clear line across the estate. The title is compact; the responsibility is not. At Château Ausone, stewardship and exacting taste are part of the same job.

Today

At Château Ausone, the work runs from vineyard to cellar to the estate’s overall expression, and Pauline Vauthier’s focus sits inside that full chain. The task is to preserve a distinct identity while responding to what each season delivers. As manager, she is not only keeping things in order; she is maintaining coherence, so the estate’s character remains legible in the present tense.

Signature

Château Ausone and Château La Clotte are the two names that mark Pauline’s signature wines. Read together, they map the range of her remit: one estate closely associated with prestige, the other grounding the work in the family’s wider winemaking landscape. In Saint-Émilion, that kind of pairing says something practical about responsibility. The signature is not just a label; it is the consistent hand behind different bottles and vintages.

In Their Words “The whole of the vineyard owned by the Vauthier family was affected by them. The least affected plots lost 10% of the crop while the worst affected had 80% wiped out.” The numbers here do the work. They show how uneven damage can be across a single vineyard, and how loss is measured block by block rather than in general terms. In that range from 10% to 80%, the sentence records the basic reality of farming at estate scale: weather and season do not land evenly. Ownership since 1971 gives the line its frame, and the location in the plain south of the village of Saint-Emilion fixes the wine in place. The sentence is plainspoken, but it points to long custodianship and to the specific geography that defines the property. That is often what continuity looks like in wine: a date, a place, and the work of holding both together.