The 2009 Teroldego Sgarzon is a single-vineyard wine Foradori is reintroducing to her lineup. The Sgarzon boasts fabulous richness and energy from start to finish. An exciting melange of dark fruit, tobacco, flowers, licorice, ash, mint and minerals takes over the palate as the wine opens up in the glass. The 2010 is mostly about aromatic complexity and minerality, two qualities the wine has in spades. The tense, wiry finish argues for at least a few years in the cellar. Foradori bottled the 2010 only in magnums, so readers will have to be particularly patient here. Anticipated maturity: 2016-2029.
I have included notes on these new releases from Elisabetta Foradori, even though she is located in Trentino rather than Alto Adige. Foradori continues to push the boundaries when it comes to Teroldego, the main indigenous red variety in Trentino. Biodynamic farming and a non-interventionalist approach to winemaking are at the core of Foradori’s philosophy. Over the last few years Foradori has begun using terra cotta amphoras for a number of her wines. Foradori has also re-introduced two single-vineyard Teroldegos – Sgarzon and Morei – she first made from 1988 to 1999. Both wines emerge from pergola-trained vineyards and are aged in terra cotta amphoras. Readers should do whatever they can to taste these magnificent wines.
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