After a childhood spent in the orange groves of South Morocco, Gildas d’Ollone went to Paris to study commerce, whilst always spending a lot of time on his great passion, music. He was a singer at the Opera de Paris in Carmen, Tosca and Boris Goudounov and he studied the flute at the Conservatoire de Versailles. At the time it seemed likely that he would pursue a musical career like his grandfather, who was a composer. However he met Martin Bamford of Château Loudenne who communicated his love of wine to Gildas.