100% Manzoni Bianco, an early-20th-century crossing of Riesling and Pinot Bianco. Foradori organically farms and hand-harvests 3 hectares on clay-limestone soils in the Fontanasanta hills above Trento. Aged 8 months in acacia barrel, concrete and clay. The results are yellow apple, white peach, apricot mountain herbs and a stony minerality. The palate is brisk and crisp with lots of length. Delicate and pure, a real joy to sip and linger over.
The Fontanasanta estate in the hills to the east of Trento is a farm which is isolated by forest and watered by the Río Salugo. Its soils are a red earth with white rock: a calcareous clay.
AZIENDA AGRICOLA FORADORI
Mezzolombardo
Certified organic by ICEA and Biodynamic by Demeter
Azienda Agricola Foradori is a 29-ha biodynamic estate in Mezzolombardo (Trento). Two distinct terroirs can be found, Campo Rotaliano (alluvial, gravel and sand) and Fontanasanta (mainly calcareous clay).
Located in the heart of Campo Rotaliano surrounded by the Dolomites, the estate was built in 1901 and has been owned by the Foradori family since 1939. Since then, they have been working to resurrect the ancient local variety Teroldego, from 2002 the estate converted to biodynamic viticulture.
It was Elisabetta Foradori and Rainer Zierock’s work that led to the conservation and regeneration of the Teroldego grape genetics through the cultivation of the grape’s original genotypes. Today their children Emilio, Theo and Myrtha Zierock, the fourth generation, continue in their footsteps in running the estate.
Aside from wine, the family is producing vegetables and breeding Tyrolean Grey cattle for cheese production.
“As guardians of the land we believe our work is measured with time, with nature’s rhythms, with the anticipation for the plants to grow, to age, to give fruit, for the wine’s slow evolution in the silence and darkness of the winery”.