Dorigati

Dorigati is one of Trentino’s historic wineries: founded in 1858 in Mezzocorona, in the heart of the Piana Rotaliana, it has been led by five generations of the same family of grape growers and winemakers. The founder, surveyor Luigi Dorigati, started the business in Piazza della Chiesa, in what was then Mezzotedesco.

In 1906 his son Pio, the first in the family to study at the Istituto Agrario di San Michele, built the new winery at via Dante 5, where the company is still based today. The baton was then passed to Giovanni and Emilio, then to Franco and Carlo, up to the fifth generation: today the company is run by cousins Michele and Paolo, together with Franco. In 1986, from the friendship between oenologists Carlo Dorigati and Enrico Paternoster, Trento DOC Methius was born, the estate’s traditional-method sparkling wine.

The estate-owned vineyards are in Mezzocorona and are trained to pergola. Bagolari, Eghheti and Sottodossi are dedicated to Teroldego, with clonal selections and rootstocks chosen vineyard by vineyard to enhance quality and complexity. The Ischia vineyard, on the slopes of Monte di Mezzocorona, hosts Chardonnay and Rebo, while Casetta, with its poor, gravelly soil, is planted to Cabernet Sauvignon and Lagrein.

The historic winery, in the center of Mezzocorona, is arranged over three floors, two of them underground, where temperature and humidity remain almost constant throughout the year. The range includes Trento DOC Methius and Om De Fer, Teroldego Rotaliano DOC Superiore Riserva Diedri, the red Luigi, the selections Planus and Majerla, and the classics Teroldego Rotaliano, Lagrein Dunkel, Lagrein Kretzer, Rebo and Pinot Grigio.

Respect for the land and love for the territory are the values that have accompanied Dorigati for over a century and a half, a true standard-bearer of Teroldego and the Piana Rotaliana.