Est. 1901 
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Two-hour guided visit through the vineyards, gardens and cellar in Mezzolombardo, ending with a tasting of Foradori wines paired with homemade farm products.
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Trentino-South Tyrol, ItalyForadori works the alluvial gravels of the Campo Rotaliano in Mezzolombardo, the historic heartland of Teroldego. Now in its fourth generation under Elisabetta Foradori and her children Emilio, Theo and Myrtha, the estate has farmed biodynamically since 2002 and has held Demeter certification since 2009.
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Trentino-South Tyrol
- Est. 1901
- Tastings
- Tours
- Accommodation
- Booking required
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Experiences at Azienda Agricola Foradori
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Beyond the Bridge
Two-hour guided visit and tasting focused on a selection of rare and unique bottles drawn from the cellar, alongside the vineyards and amphora cellar in Mezzolombardo.
Book this experienceThe Encounter
A short seated tasting of three Foradori wines of your choice, hosted in the courtyard or inside the tasting room. Slots run every thirty minutes between 10:00 and 16:00.
Book this experienceDiary of a Journey
Two-hour guided visit through the vineyards, gardens and cellar in Mezzolombardo, ending with a tasting of Foradori wines paired with homemade farm products.
Book this experienceAbout Azienda Agricola Foradori
The estate was established in 1901 and has been in the family since Vittorio Foradori bought it in 1939. The pivotal chapter started in 1984, when Elisabetta Foradori returned from oenology school at S. Michele all'Adige to face her first vintage. A year later she began the massal selection programme on Teroldego that came to define the estate, identifying old plant material on the alluvial gravels of the Campo Rotaliano and rebuilding the variety's genetic diversity vine by vine.
The wine range follows the geography. Granato, first bottled in 1986, comes from the oldest pergola-trained Teroldego vineyards averaging seventy years of age. Morei and Sgarzon, also from 1987, are single-vineyard Teroldego that have been raised in terracotta amphorae as the CILINDRICA bottlings since 2014. The estate Foradori is the open-knit blend that draws from the wider mosaic of Campo Rotaliano sites, while Lezèr, introduced in 2017, is a lighter Teroldego pressed for early drinking.
Fontanasanta, in the calcareous hills above Trento, is where the whites are grown. Nosiola, Trentino's indigenous white grape, and Manzoni Bianco have been bottled from this site since 2009 and 2010 respectively, with a CILINDRICA amphora version of Nosiola added in 2018. Fuoripista Pinot Grigio, made on the skins, comes from gravels close to the river Noce on the southern edge of Campo Rotaliano. From 2021 the estate has also bottled wines from new Nosiola and Schiava plantings on Monte Baldo.
Farming converted to biodynamics in 2002, with Demeter certification arriving in 2009 and membership of Renaissance des AOC the same year. In 2021 the estate joined the respekt-BIODYN association, a community of biodynamic growers across Alto Adige, Trentino and Austria. Indigenous yeasts only, no additives in the cellar, and a deliberate use of acacia and oak casks, concrete tanks and terracotta tinajas for ageing.
The estate is open Monday to Friday for guided visits and tastings by booking, with a small shop on Via Damiano Chiesa in Mezzolombardo. Alongside the wines, Myrtha runs a vegetable garden, Elisabetta makes farm cheese, and the family has built up an integrated agricultural landscape of hedges, old fruit varieties and pasture across the estate.
Visiting Azienda Agricola Foradori
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Plan your visit
Via D. Chiesa, 1, 38017 Mezzolombardo, Trento (Trentino Alto Adige)
Plate I · TRENTINO-SOUTH TYROL
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Common questions
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Foradori is in Mezzolombardo, in the Campo Rotaliano plain at the northern edge of Trentino. The estate also farms vineyards at Fontanasanta near Cognola di Trento and on Monte Baldo, with the main shop and tasting room on Via Damiano Chiesa in Mezzolombardo.
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