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Producer Spotlight · July 2026
Foradori
Trentino · four generations, one nearly-lost grape
When Elisabetta Foradori took her first vintage in 1984, she inherited not a finished estate but an obligation — to a grape. Over four decades she turned that inheritance into Trentino’s definitive Teroldego project, and handed it, still working, to a fourth generation.
Her grandfather Vittorio bought the place in 1939; her father Roberto made the first Foradori-labelled wine and died in 1976, leaving her mother Gabriella to hold it together until Elisabetta was old enough to take the reins. Today the estate runs as a true succession rather than a memory of one: her three children work it together — Emilio on the winemaking, Theo on the commercial side, Myrtha on the farming.
Over twenty years Elisabetta did painstaking mass-selection, propagating from the healthiest old Teroldego vines she could find to rebuild the variety’s genetic range plant by plant. She converted the estate to biodynamics in 2002 and earned Demeter certification in 2009; some cuvées now spend time in clay amphora with extended skin contact, the better to read the grape without the cellar’s accent over it.
The Places
The estate sits at Mezzolombardo, on the Campo Rotaliano — a flat alluvial plain on the floor of an Alpine valley in Trentino. The soils are a working mix of clay, limestone, gravel and old river deposits, the free-draining ground that lets Teroldego ripen fully without losing its nerve. This is the grape’s historic heartland, and Foradori treats the plain less as a vineyard than as a seed bank for a variety that decades of yield-first planting had quietly degraded.
Why Foradori Matters
What makes Foradori matter now is that the lineage and the thesis are the same thing: to carry the family name forward is to carry Teroldego forward. The wine to meet them through is the signature Teroldego 2024, the estate’s calling card and the clearest statement of what four generations have protected. When that bottle has won you over, the old-vine Granato is the splurge-up — the same grape with another decade of ambition behind it.
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Foradori Teroldego 2024
Campo Rotaliano, Trentino
The estate’s signature bottling and the clearest introduction to the Foradori thesis — 100% Teroldego from the Campo Rotaliano, fresh and savory, built around the grape rather than the cellar. The old-vine Granato is the splurge-up.
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