The company was founded in 1865 by a fellow whose ancestors had emigrated to Switzerland during the Huguenot persecutions. He returned to France and married a Burgundian lady of property.
Camille Giroud took up residence at its present address in the late 1890s. One of the last of the small negoçiants specializing in "vins de garde", Bourgogne Rouges that need ten to fifteen years to mature.