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Italy's most awarded Gewürztraminer, from one hillside above the village that gave the grape its name. Rose, lychee and ginger on the nose, then a dry, full, spicy palate at 14%. On sale in the UK for around £33 to £40.
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Cantina Tramin's own note for the 2024 lists rose petals, lily, mango, passion fruit and lemon zest, then cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and saffron. Sugar sits under 6.5 grams a litre, so the wine is dry however sweet it smells.
Bright gold in the glass. The nose is the sweet-smelling part: rose petals, lychee, ripe mango and passion fruit, then a dusting of cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Cantina Tramin's own note adds lily, lemon zest and saffron. Drinkers on Vivino name lychee, mango and honey more than anything else.
Lemon
Rose petal
Lychee
Mango
Melon
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
HoneyDry, despite what the nose promises. Under 6.5 grams of sugar per litre, 14% alcohol and soft acidity give a full, smooth, almost oily texture. The Nussbaumer slopes above Tramin, 350 to 550 metres up on gravel and loam over porphyry, keep it fresh where flatter sites turn heavy. Fourteen months on its lees in steel add a creamy weight with no oak at all.
Long and spicy, with a salty edge that the estate says grows with age. Ginger and honey linger.
Cantina Tramin's flagship dry Gewürztraminer and, by the estate's count, Italy's most awarded. It sits above Selida in the range and below the rare Epokale. Drink it from release to about eight years on. Drinkers give it 4.3 out of 5 across more than 11,000 Vivino ratings, praising the perfume and the richness; the 2023 sits a touch lower at 4.2.
UK shops list both the 2023 and the 2024 at around £33 to £40 a bottle. The 2024, from a wetter year, is the lighter one and has been the cheaper of the two. The 2023 is riper at 14.5% and carries the higher critic scores.
Six scores that weigh the same facts: a £33 to £40 single-vineyard white, dry at 14 to 14.5%, no oak, 93 to 95 points for the 2023 and a 7 to 20 year window from the estate.
Aromatic and full-bodied, it works across Thai, mild Indian, Chinese and Alto Adige mountain dishes, but it loses to raw shellfish and fierce chilli.
Italy's most awarded Gewürztraminer, with Tre Bicchieri and Veronelli's top mark behind it, is a safe bottle for a guest who thinks Gewürztraminer is sweet.
No tannin, no oak and a perfume anyone can name from the first sniff; the only surprise is that it finishes dry at 14%.
At about £33 to £40 it costs roughly twice the estate's entry Gewürztraminer, but you get the single-vineyard flagship with 93 to 95 points for the 2023.
Cantina Tramin gives it 7 to 20 years and says the honey and salty edge build with age, though most bottles show best inside eight years.
A £33 to £40 white at 14% alcohol is a Friday-night bottle, not a Tuesday one.
Scoring is rule-based and deterministic. The model and weightings are documented in our Wine Fit Score methodology.
A compact view of what the Alto Adige/Südtirol denomination actually requires, and how this bottle sits inside it. Pulled from the official Italian disciplinare.
2023 asked for patience in Tramin: a cool wet spring, midsummer heat, then warm weeks after picking began that let the Gewürztraminer ripen fully, to 14.5%. 2024 was wetter and harder work, and the estate calls its whites delicate and fresh; Nussbaumer landed at 14%.
A wet, hard-work year: a rainy March brought early budding, it stayed damp until late June, and an autumn of rain delayed ripening. Cantina Tramin calls its 2024 whites delicate and fresh, and this is the lighter Nussbaumer of the pair at 14%. Drink it young for the perfume.
A year that asked for patience in Tramin: a cool wet spring, midsummer heat, then warm weeks after picking began that let the late-ripening Gewürztraminer catch up. It is the riper of the two on sale, at 14.5%, with James Suckling at 93 points and Falstaff at 95.
A wet, hard-work year: a rainy March brought early budding, it stayed damp until late June, and an autumn of rain delayed ripening. Cantina Tramin calls its 2024 whites delicate and fresh, and this is the lighter Nussbaumer of the pair at 14%. Drink it young for the perfume.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Cantina Tramin calls Nussbaumer Italy's most awarded Gewürztraminer. The 2023 took 95 points from Falstaff and 93 from James Suckling, the 2021 won Gambero Rosso's Tre Bicchieri, and Veronelli gave the 2019 to 2022 vintages its top mark, Tre Stelle Oro.
Italian wine law sorts bottles into a pyramid. DOCG sits at the top: tightly drawn boundaries, prescribed grapes, mandatory ageing, government tasting before release. DOC is the same idea with looser thresholds. IGT (Indicazione Geografica Tipica) is broader still, requiring only that 85% of the grapes come from the named territory.
Alto Adige/Südtirol is in the DOC tier. That is not a quality verdict, it is a description of how much freedom the producer has at vinification and ageing.
Alto Adige/Südtirol falls within Trentino-Alto Adige, covering Grapes must be grown in the province of Bolzano. The zone takes in the whole vineyard territory of 36 communes along the Adige valley. It runs from Salorno, Termeno and Cortaccia in the south, past Bolzano, up to Merano and Tirolo. It also covers parts of. The denomination is further divided into 6 sub-zones.
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Wine route in the zone: Strada del Vino dell'Alto Adige (Südtiroler Weinstraße).
The grapes come from one site above Tramin at 350 to 550 metres, picked by hand, at a yield of 45 hl/ha. That is roughly half of what the Alto Adige DOC rules allow for the grape, so each vine gives less wine.
Cantina Tramin keeps Nussbaumer on its yeast lees in small steel tanks until the end of August after harvest, then rests it three more months in bottle. The wine ties up more than a year of cellar space before a penny comes back.
Falstaff 95 and James Suckling 93 for the 2023, Tre Bicchieri for the 2021, Veronelli's Tre Stelle Oro four vintages running. That record sets Nussbaumer's price well above the estate's entry Gewürztraminer, Selida.
Cantina Tramin is a cooperative of 160 families and made about 58,000 bottles of the 2024 Nussbaumer. That volume keeps it at about £33 to £40, where a tiny single-estate flagship would usually cost more.
Duty on a 75cl bottle is £3.33 at 14.5% alcohol (the 2023) and about £3.22 at 14% (the 2024). Add VAT at 20% of the shelf price, £5.83 on £35, and about £9 of what you pay never reaches Tramin.
The cheapest UK listing has been £32.86 for the 2024 and the dearest £40.04 for the 2023. Vintage explains part of the gap; the rest is shop margin, so it pays to compare before you buy.
Dishes that go with this wine
Nussbaumer's ginger, lychee and cinnamon bridge to Thai and mild Indian curries. Its body carries Peking duck and canederli with speck, and its honeyed fruit softens blue cheese. Raw oysters and fierce chilli are the two things it loses to.
The wine's own ginger, lychee and cinnamon echo the aromatics in a green or massaman curry, so the two taste like one dish. Its soft acidity and sweet-smelling nose take the edge off medium chilli heat. The coconut richness gives Tramin's 14% alcohol something to lean on.
Try with: Green curry · Massaman curry · Panang curry · Tom kha gai · More pairings →
Creamy, gently spiced curries want a white with body and perfume rather than sharp acidity. Nussbaumer's ripe mango and honey notes meet the sweetness in a korma sauce head on, and its low acidity does not fight the cream. Keep the chilli mild, because 14 to 14.5% alcohol amplifies heat.
Try with: Chicken korma · Chicken tikka masala · Prawn masala · Paneer tikka masala · More pairings →
Hoisin and five-spice are sweet and aromatic, and so is this wine. Its cinnamon, clove and lemon-zest side lines up with the glaze. The full body carries the fat of the duck skin where a light white would vanish.
Try with: Peking duck · Char siu bao · Crispy pork belly · Sweet and sour pork · More pairings →
This is what the wine is drunk with at home in Tramin. Bread dumplings with smoked speck, or a pumpkin risotto, are rich and mildly sweet, and a full-bodied 14% white with fourteen months on its lees matches that weight. The wine's spice reads like the nutmeg in the dumplings.
Try with: Canederli · Pumpkin risotto · Roast pork · More pairings →
Salty, pungent cheese flattens most dry whites. Nussbaumer's honeyed fruit and low acidity soften the salt instead, and the rose-petal perfume stands up to the smell of a ripe Gorgonzola. It is the cheese-board bottle among the aromatic whites of Alto Adige.
Try with: Blue cheese · Cheese board · Gorgonzola, pear, and walnut risotto · More pairings →
Two things beat it. Raw shellfish and lemon-dressed white fish want a lean, sharp white, and Nussbaumer's 14% alcohol and rose-petal perfume swamp them. Once chilli goes past medium, the alcohol reads as burn, so a madras or a Szechuan dish makes the wine taste harsh.
Skip with: Oysters · Sashimi · Chicken madras · Szechuan beef · Pairing guide →
The estate gives Nussbaumer 7 to 20 years and says the salty, mineral edge grows as the rose and lychee fade into honey and ginger. Steel-only ageing and 14% alcohol keep it stable in bottle, and there is no oak to dry out.
Peak around 2029. Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
A short splash decant softens the first-pour edge and opens the aromatics.
Cantina Tramin gives it 7 to 20 years and says the honey and salty edge build with age, though most bottles show best inside eight years.
£29.90 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighNotes published by the producer, quoted with attribution.
Confidence · HighFrom the official Italian disciplinare for this denomination, cross-checked against the Ministry of Agriculture register.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt is dry. Cantina Tramin's sheet for the 2024 lists under 6.5 grams of sugar per litre at 14% alcohol, well inside the dry range. The nose smells sweet, all rose petal, lychee and honey, so many people expect a sweet wine. The palate is full and spicy but finishes dry.
Nussbaumer is the vineyard site above Tramin the grapes come from, not a person. The vines sit between 350 and 550 metres, facing south-east and south, on calcareous gravel and loam over red porphyry rock. The estate picks the grapes by hand from late September to late October and made about 58,000 bottles of the 2024.
The grape takes its name from Tramin itself, the village in Alto Adige where Cantina Tramin is based. Gewürz means spice in German, so the name reads as the spiced grape of Tramin. Records of Traminer vines in the village go back around a thousand years, and the estate calls the village the grape's home.
Cantina Tramin gives it 7 to 20 years. Young, it is all rose petal and lychee. With age the honey, ginger and a salty edge come forward, which is the direction the estate itself points to. Drink the 2024 from 2026 to about 2034 and the 2023 from now to about 2033. There is no hurry with either.
Both are on sale in the UK at about £33 to £40 a bottle. The 2023 is the riper, fuller bottle at 14.5% alcohol; James Suckling gave it 93 points and Falstaff 95. The 2024 came from a wet, difficult year and is the lighter, fresher one at 14%, and it has been the cheaper of the two.
Mild to medium spice is its home ground: a Thai green curry, a chicken korma, Peking duck with hoisin. It also holds its own with Alto Adige mountain food such as canederli with speck, and with blue cheeses like Gorgonzola. Skip it with raw oysters and very hot chilli dishes, where its 14% alcohol turns harsh.
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