Foradori Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT Teroldego 2020: A Wine with Personality
Foradori Vigneti delle Dolomiti IGT Teroldego 2020 is a red wine from Trentino that has a great personality: it is fruity, fresh, savory, slim, and easy to drink. The tannins are designed with precision but great finesse, so don’t expect a ripe and pumped bomb from the barrique, but rather a subtle wine with stellar drinkability.
How it is produced
The grapes come from three plots of the Piana Rotaliana: Campazzi, Mezzolombardo, and Settepergole. The Foradori winery has been biodynamic for years and years, and it was certainly not a transition for fashion or marketing reasons, given that Elisabetta Foradori’s entire journey was taken one step after another, always following a path of cultural awareness and cultural re-appropriation of one’s land. Call it “peasant” lighting if you want to summarize.
Spontaneous fermentation in cement and then aging in large casks.
Organoleptic characteristics
The result is a pungent and balsamic wine that is light and never exhausted or tenuous. Bucolic in fruity and aromatic explosiveness, with a thousand scents of flowers and aromatic plants.
There is no molasses or jam, just lots of fresh, sharp pulp. Peppery finish. simple, immediate, and sunny in its ruddy and cheerful frankness.
On the palate, this duet between strawberry and pickled olive returns. The tannins drip with china and blood, but they are clean, straight, and honest. And since we are talking about honesty and commitment, these are the main characteristics of this excellent Trentino red wine.
The measure, the stylistic candor, and the lack of makeup, which is not a lack of technique but the freedom to be what comes closest to the concept of purity of a charismatic winemaker who now uses Teroldego as more than just fermented grape juice, are the main features of this noble wine.
Salty, anything but heavy, and round just enough to be not only juicy and drinkable but also complex in its gustatory development. Excellent length of sip; tireless; rocky in the finish.
Price
20 euro. But there were some of these wines, made in this frank but very elegant way, without hesitation. It will also cost a few euros more than the usual classic natural wines from the 15 euro range, but it is worth them, and how: it is worth every last cent.
Pairings
A strong green note, mentholated tones, and a clear, tight fruit invite pairings with meat, smoked dishes, and classic fatty and tasty dishes like paella, veal with tuna sauce, chicken curry, pulled pork, empanadas, hamburgers, and fillet Wellington.
