Foradori - 'Lezèr' - Teroldego - Alto-Adige, IT - 2025 - 1500ml

Notes from the Winery/Importer

The idea of creating a light Teroldego to celebrate the summer was something that interested us for some time but it wasn’t until the hail storms of August 2017, which destroyed 40% of our harvest that we decided to have a go. From the small amount of fruit harvested from the damaged vines we were able to piece together a number of vinification tests with short maceration processes to make Lezèr. We undertook various batch tests in amphorae, wood, cement and steel, never leaving the grapes on the skins for more than 24 hours.

This wine was born with the spirit of experimentation and continues to develop in this way.
Overseeing the various developments that take place in each vintage, each year we experiment with the addition of full bunches and changing containers, along with tweaking our techniques and timings for short maceration.
Name of wine: Lezèr – Rosso Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT
Grape: Teroldego 84% + other red grape varieties 16%
Vineyard location: pergola and guyot vines in Mezzolombardo – Campo Rotaliano
Hectares: 4 hectares, across various plots
Terroir: Alluvial, gravel and sand
Fermentation: cement tanks, wooden barrels and terracotta amphorae
Fining: 4 months in cement tanks, wooden barrels and terracotta amphorae
Annual production: 50.000 bottles

Notes on the Producer

We are free farmers, united in our respect for the earth and its abundance.
We work with passion to grow plants that maintain their natural expressivity.
We transform the fruits of our earth for the wellbeing of those who reap its goodness.
Our ultimate goal is to create harmony between man and nature.
When a healthy farming method consents a grapevine to express itself in its entirety, the fruit that is born from it will be an expression of authenticity.
The quality of the wine we produce will be apparent through its vitality.
To preserve the vital forces of the original fruit throughout the transformation from grape into wine, evokes a perception of its birthplace in the wine as well as to whom drinks it; it enters in harmony with the food and creates a wholesome drink that gives a sense of wellbeing.
We do not intervene in the winery; nothing is added, but we guide the wine while paying attention to its needs. Thus, the wine keeps an expressive spontaneity and bears the personality of its intense and live raw material.
In the winery, fermentation takes place in different containers in which the wine is also aged.
The acacia and oak wood of the casks and open-top tanks is alive: leaving traces of itself, it takes part in the transformation process and guides the wine through time, supporting it.
The clay of the tinajas gives full freedom of expression to the grapes and gives the wine the chance to reconnect to the earth. These containers are strongly energetic: their broad and elongated shape welcomes and embraces; the clay from which they are made has the property to link the cosmic to the terrestrial forces.
The cement containers help with their thermal inertia; even stainless steel has a role in our winery and remains as a witness to our past.
Our work is measured with time, with nature’s rhythms, with the anticipation for the grapevine to grow, to age, to give fruit, for the wine’s slow evolution in the silence and darkness of the winery and its development in the bottle first and the wineglass afterwards.
The expressive spontaneity of a wine that is full of life consents it to continually change, to reveal itself in its essence. It is a wine that will never leave us.
When you open one of our bottles, make sure to do so at the correct cellaring temperature, pour the wine into ample glasses and follow it in time: it will guide you with versatility, sharing with you the personality of the intense raw material, which will embrace the variety of food placed before you.
A wine rich with vital forces is born through an act of love towards nature and as such cannot but envelop and surprise you.