I'm facing a media storm.
I've been wrongly accused of tampering with my wines to enrich myself. Journalists have overdramatised and criticised without nuance. In so doing, they have tarnished and perhaps ruined forever my reputation as an oenologist. Faced with these accusations, I have decided to publish my version of events on this website.
Readers will be the judge.
Dominique Giroud was born in 1971 into the fourth generation of a family of winegrowers. After an apprenticeship as a wine merchant, he completed his oenology training at the Changins School of Engineering in 1992 and went into partnership with his father, who had long experience of working in the vineyards, with Dominique Giroud more specifically in charge of the oenological and commercial aspects. At the time, father and son owned a hectare and a half of vines but had no production facilities. They decided to buy a winery in Chamoson, which they would keep for over ten years until the opening of the one in Sion in 2008.
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