Grape: 70% Teroldego, 15% Schiava, 10% Lagrein, 5% Merlot
Style: Light bodied and chillable with soft tannins. Juicy red fruit, sour cherry, pomegranate, alpine herbs, and a touch of spice.
Details: From 8 hectares of vines on sandy, gravelly alluvial soils. Short maceration and spontaneous fermentation. Aged briefly in a mix of cement, steel, old wood, and amphora. Annual experimentation with varieties, vessels, and whole-cluster inclusion. Label design shifts slightly each vintage.
Story: Elisabetta Foradori is a giant in Italian wine, often called the queen of Teroldego. Thrust into responsibility for the family estate at a young age, she gradually transformed it into one of Europe’s most important natural wine cellars, pioneering biodynamics, amphora aging, and massale selection of local varieties. Over the decades she became a model of integrity and vision, making wines that reflect both place and person with equal clarity.
Today, her three children—Emilio, Theo, and Myrtha—carry this work forward. Emilio has been directing viticulture and quietly making the wines since 2013, while Theo represents the estate abroad and collaborates in the cellar, and Myrtha develops the farm into a diversified polyculture. Lezèr was born in 2017, when a hailstorm devastated the Teroldego crop. Instead of abandoning the damaged fruit, the family turned it into a short-maceration red, naming it “light” in local dialect. What began as an improvisation has become a cult favorite, perfectly reflecting the next generation’s spirit: agile, experimental, and deeply rooted in the Dolomitic landscape.
