Elisabetta Foradori took over her family's estate in Mezzolombardo in 1984, at twenty, after the sudden death of her father, and spent the decades since reclaiming teroldego from a cooperative afterthought into a wine of consequence. Where convention favored volume over character, she went the other way, rebuilding the grape's genetic diversity through massal selection from the oldest pergola vines and converting the estate to biodynamics, begun in 2002 and certified by Demeter in 2009. That basin of alluvial sand, gravel, and dolomitic limestone, laid down where the Noce River once ran and ringed by the cliffs of the Dolomites, is now stewarded with her children Emilio, Theo, and Myrtha Zierock, across the plain and the calcareous hills above Trento. The family has expanded into cheesemaking and vegetable farming, all shaped by the same ethos.

Granato is the wine that made Foradori's name, first bottled in 1986, and it remains the estate's only riserva-level teroldego. It comes from three parcels of the oldest vines, about four hectares planted in pergola between 1938 and 1956 on the gravelliest, stoniest ground of the Campo Rotaliano, the same genetically rich material from which every new Foradori vineyard is propagated. The name points less to garnet than to the pomegranate, melograno, a fruit the family ties to teroldego for its bright, dense, self-contained energy.

Around half the fruit stays in whole clusters, fermenting with indigenous yeasts and no added sulfur in open wooden vats, where it macerates for several weeks under a submerged cap rather than by punchdown. The wine then spends about fifteen months in large old botti of up to twenty-two hectoliters, and a further year in bottle before release. It is the deepest and longest-lived wine of the range, with ripe black cherry and wild plum, pomegranate and dried rose, alpine herbs, graphite, and sweet spice, structured tannins, and a long, savory, stony finish. From the 2022 vintage it will reward a decade or more in the cellar.