Fora Wines - Giovanni Bottazzi, Simone Fanton
In the Venetian dialect "te si fora" is said to friends when they combine one. Unusual people, who choose with their hearts rather than their heads, are a bit of a "hole" here.
But fora is also the open space, out there, in the fields, among the vineyards. Where we are: Giovanni and Simone, two friends who love the outdoors and good wine.
Fora is our project for the recovery of a territory, that of the Berici Hills that we love and that we live, and of the man-plant-soil balance. Our vineyard (1 hectare facing south-east) is located in Nanto, in the hills kissed by the sun: a magical place, which invites you to just stay fora.
We work in the vineyard two typical varieties of the area: the white Garganega, solar and mineral; the red Tai, blood and passion.
The vineyard is conducted manually except for the treatments (sulfur and copper in very low percentages), for which we use the tractor.
The harvest is manual to select the grapes.
In the cellar the fermentations are spontaneous, with indigenous yeasts, we carry out only some decanting during the vinification (no clarification or other procedures). We bottle when we feel the wine is ready, obtaining different wines every year. We do not manipulate the grapes to obtain a product that does not represent us, we do not use chemicals, we take care of the plants and we harvest by hand.
We are what we drink, and our wines are like us: natural, true, from the heart. In one word: FORA