Baldi family

vine growers since 1874

We live where we work and for this reason we like to consider the vineyards as our home garden, and like a garden we respect them and take care of their health.

For this reason, in addition to the organic certification, we have created buffer zones adjacent to the vineyards and in the center of the hill, where we maintain bushes and tall plants to encourage biodiversity.

With the same objective we carry out wildlife repopulation projects, we produce all the electricity necessary for production and we recover rainwater to limit water consumption.

We, the Baldi family, settled in the farmhouse adjacent to the vineyards in the mid-19th century, at the service of Luigi Lanzavecchia, Earl of Burio and lord of the castle overlooking the hill.

After many years of hard work, in 1874, we had saved enough to be able to buy a first vineyard from the Count, the Balau, also called ”God’s vineyard” because it always gave excellent quality and never took hail!

Thanks to the salary and the vineyard we finally owned, in the following years we were able to buy a plow, an ox and more land, gradually acquiring almost all of the nobles’ property.

In 1914, on the threshold of the world war, the three daughters of Count Lanzavecchia, now elderly, with little income and without heirs, made a pact with our family: we thus provided for every need of the three ladies, assisting them in every way until the death of the last of them, in exchange we received as an inheritance the last vineyard they owned (named Castelburio, because it’s right in front of the castle) and the farmhouse.

In all these years we have preserved the memory of our family, the fears, the successes, the luck and the disappointments which compose the story of our family and of the small hill of Burio, the heart of Piedmont.