Azienda Agricola Foradori
Azienda Agricola Foradori spans four generations of vignerons working to grow plants that maintain their natural expressivity. Located in Mezzolombardo (Trento), in the heart of Campo Rotaliano and surrounded by the Dolomites, the estate was built in 1901 and has been carried on by the Foradori family since 1939. Since then, they have been working to valorize the ancient local variety of Teroldego, and from 2002 they have implanted biodynamic agriculture.
It was Elisabetta Foradori and Rainer Zierock’s work who 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 continue in their footsteps in running the estate.
Aside from wine, the focus at Foradori is also in cultivating 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.”
Technical Data:
Land: 29ha (16ha estate owned in Campo Rotaliano, 9ha on 50 year loan in Fontanasanta, 4ha collaborations with members of our team)
Bottles per year: 180.000
Terroir: Campo Rotaliano (alluvial, gravel and sand) + Fontanasanta (mainly calcareous clay)
