Tramin Pinot Nero 2025
£18.25
The wine
Ruby in colour with light garnet hues. The seducing scent recalls forest fruit, plum, raspberry and cherry, and the wine is juicy and fruit-led throughout. Velvety soft, with fresh acidity framed by fine-grained tannins and a slight hint of florals.
Pinot Nero has been grown in Alto Adige since the nineteenth century and the region's altitude and cool nights suit it better than most of Italy. This is the village bottling, made in a fresh, red-fruited style with restrained extraction and modest oak, and it takes a light chill well on a warm evening.
The producer
Tramin
View all Tramin winesThe village of Tramin gave Gewürztraminer its name, and the cooperative founded here in 1898 has spent more than a century proving the point. The grape's name means simply the spiced grape of Tramin, and although it is now grown from Alsace to New Zealand, this is where it started.
Around 300 grower families farm roughly 260 hectares on the slopes above the Adige valley, at altitudes running from 250 to 850 metres. That spread is the cooperative's greatest asset: Alto Adige is a narrow alpine valley where a few hundred metres of elevation changes everything about how a grape ripens, and every parcel here is vinified according to its site rather than pooled by variety.
Under Willi Stürz, who has led the cellar since 1992, Tramin has become one of the most decorated names in Italian white wine. Epokale, a Gewürztraminer Spätlese aged in a disused copper mine at 2,000 metres, was the first Italian white ever awarded 100 points by Wine Advocate. The region's Germanic history shows throughout, in the village names, the labels and the taste for precision.
