2021 Foradori, Manzoni “Fontanasanta” IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti 1.5L Magnum, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

100% Manzoni Bianco. Manzoni is a 1930’s crossing of Riesling Renano and Pinot Bianco, developed in the Veneto by Dr. Luigi Manzoni. Foradori works 5 hectares of this rare variety in the Fontanasanta vineyard at about 400 meters above the city of Trento, a few miles down-valley from the Foradori estate in Mezzolombardo. The vines are 15 to 35 years old and grow on clay-limestone soils. The farming is organic. The bunches are harvested by hand and destemmed. Fermentation is spontaneous with indigenous yeasts and without sulfur in cement and steel tanks; maceration with the skins lasts 3-4 days. The wine goes through malo and is aged in used acacia barrels for about 7 months. It is bottled without fining or filtering and with the wine’s only very small dose of sulfur. Like all Foradori wines, the wine is classified as IGT Vigneti delle Dolomiti.

-Importer’s note