Clos Triguedina is more than just an estate. It is a place of passage, hospitality, and transmission. For nearly 200 years, the Baldès Family has cultivated here not only vines, but also high standards and emotion. On these lands in Vire-sur-Lot, just a few meters from the Lot River, the memories of past generations intertwine with the passage of time and the first signs of a new era.
The story of Clos Triguedina begins in 1830, when Étienne Baldès settled in Vire-sur-Lot and planted the first vines. Since then, each generation has worked with the same humility and ambition to bring recognition to the Cahors terroir.
Over time, the estate has weathered the upheavals of history: phylloxera, devastating frosts, wars, and technical revolutions… Until Jean Baldès, father of Jean-Luc, who was among the first to believe in the qualitative revival of Cahors terroirs in the 1950s and 1960s.
A founding member of the Cahors appellation in 1971, he was also the first to produce a 100% Malbec cuvée with Prince Noir, later renamed Prince Probus, and then simply Probus.
Then came Jean-Luc Baldès — pioneer, expert, and visionary. He modernized the estate’s tools, elevated it among the greats, and restored Malbec to its rightful prestige. At his side, Sabine Baldès envisioned the Pavillon des Vins and committed the entire estate to a path of excellence and respect for its environment.
Today, the 7th generation is taking its place. Juliette, a winemaker trained across several continents, embodies a new way of thinking about wine — sensitive, precise, curious, and forward-looking. She knows the estate’s 94 parcels intimately, dreams of confidential white wines, new hospitality spaces, and of preserving the family legacy.
Her younger brother Jean is also gradually, yet steadily, reconnecting with the terroir that shaped him. Together, they represent the renewal of the Cahors appellation and will soon celebrate the 200th anniversary of Clos Triguedina — as a family.
“Triguedina,” in Occitan, comes from “Me trigo de dina” — “I look forward to dinner.” An expression used by pilgrims on the Way of Saint James, who would stop along this alternative route. In the shelter of the hills, the estate already carried this vocation of hospitality and renewal.
To this day, the iconic scallop shell still adorns the entrance of the estate, symbolizing the continuity between the sacred, wine, and hospitality. A vineyard, a pavilion, a refuge.
Clos Triguedina is a family home — the home of the Baldès Family — but also a refuge of history, passion, and conviction. The estate brings together generations of expertise and human values: here, people speak of wine, of course, but also of conviviality, terroir, and memory.
It is a cloister open to the world, where each vintage carries forward a promise.