Cantina Tramin sits on the Strada del Vino in Termeno, the Alto Adige village whose German name, Tramin, gives Gewürztraminer its identity. Founded in 1898 and run as a cooperative of 160 grower families, it draws fruit from vineyards strung between 250 and 850 metres above sea level on clay, gravel and limestone soils. Long-time winemaker Willi Stürz has built a portfolio split between a Selection range of single-vineyard wines and a Classic range that maps the Tramin landscape grape by grape.
Trentino-South Tyrol
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Guided cellar walk followed by a tasting of seven wines from the Selection range, the cantina's single-vineyard tier (rotating across Nussbaumer, Stoan, Troy, Unterebner, Maglen, Urban, Loam and Epokale depending on the slot).
Book this experienceStandard guided cellar tour with a tasting of four typical Alto Adige wines from the cantina's Classic range. Pets are not allowed in the production area; the cantina notes that delays may cancel the slot.
Book this experienceWalk in without an appointment and the in-house sommeliers will pour across the Classic and Selection ranges. Open Monday to Friday from 9am to 7pm and Saturday from 9am to 5pm; closed on Sunday.
EnquireGuided cellar walk followed by a tasting of seven wines from the Selection range, the cantina's single-vineyard tier (rotating across Nussbaumer, Stoan, Troy, Unterebner, Maglen, Urban, Loam and Epokale depending on the slot).
Book this experienceThe cantina opened in 1898 as one of the earliest cooperatives in Alto Adige, and it still works that way. Around 160 member families farm parcels scattered across the slopes around Termeno, Caldaro and the Adige valley floor, handing fruit to the cellar instead of bottling on their own. That structure lets the winemaking team pull from a 600-metre vertical band, from valley-floor sites at 250 metres to upper slopes near 850 metres, and pick the best plots for each cuvée.
Gewürztraminer carries the village's name, and the cantina treats it as a calling card. The range covers five Gewürztraminer expressions: Selida, the entry-level Classic; Nussbaumer, a single-vineyard Selection from 350 to 550 metres on porphyry and limestone soils, with around fifteen months of lees-stirred ageing in stainless steel; Roen, a late-harvest version; Terminum, made from late-harvest fruit affected by noble rot; and Epokale, the wine that took Italian Gewürztraminer onto the global stage. Epokale spends eight months on the lees, is bottled, and is then matured for around six years inside the Schneeberg silver mine in Ridanna at over 2,000 metres of altitude. The 2009 vintage became the first Italian wine outside Tuscany or Piedmont to earn 100 points from Wine Advocate.
The rest of the cellar reads like a small Alto Adige map. Troy is a Chardonnay Riserva aged eleven months in Bordeaux barriques, drawing on high-altitude fruit at the upper end of the cantina's vineyard band. Unterebner is a Pinot Grigio from 400 to 600 metres, partly fermented in large oak casks and matured in French oak; the result is a dense, grippy white that sits closer to a structured Alto Adige or Friulian Pinot Grigio Riserva than to the lean valley-floor template the variety is often associated with. Stoan blends Chardonnay (over 60 percent), Sauvignon Blanc, Gewürztraminer and Pinot Bianco into a single white that leans on Tramin's limestone for spine. On the red side, Maglen carries Pinot Nero in the Selection range, Urban is a Lagrein Riserva built on Alto Adige's indigenous red, and Loam is a Cabernet-Merlot blend the cantina describes as coming from an untypical Alpine microclimate.
The winery is open to visitors year-round on Strada del Vino 144. The wine shop takes walk-ins from Monday to Friday between 9am and 7pm, and on Saturdays from 9am to 5pm; the in-house sommeliers pour across both the Classic and Selection lines without a booking. For a guided cellar visit there are two slots through the WineAround portal: a 1h15 standard tour with four Classic-range wines at 17 EUR per person, and a 1h30 Selection tasting of seven crus at 29 EUR per person. Most overseas visitors combine the stop with the Strada del Vino dell'Alto Adige itself, which runs from Termeno through Caldaro to Bolzano and past most of the territory the cantina farms.
Editorially verified by ItalianWines.co.uk.
Plate I · TRENTINO-SOUTH TYROL
Cantina Tramin's current bottle selection is led by Alto Adige/Südtirol DOC. The clearest grape signal comes from Chardonnay and Gewürztraminer.
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