Damien Bastian Goddard’s, first vintage in 2017 was made in an ad hoc cellar located in a vacant room of his shared house. By the next vintage he increased production to yield a dizzying (for him) 2,000 bottles. Three years later, 2020 marks Damien’s first vintage in a proper chai--re a horse barn he’s converted for the purpose--such endeavor now affords the production of a round 20,000 bottles a vintage.  

In 2019, Damien purchased 3 hectares of Gamay, Pinot Noir, Altesse, Jacquère, and Chasselas in the village of Marsaz, near the Swiss border. He also acquired another small parcel closer to Lake Geneva, mostly planted to Chasselas. These sites are largely limestone and clay, covered in wild alpine grasses. The terrain is steep, hard to farm mechanically, and often saturated with snowmelt and rain—challenging conditions that Damien is well-prepared for, thanks to his time at Domaine Ganevat.