Chardonnay – 2024

Cantina Tramin – Chardonnay from South Tyrol

The Cantina Tramin Chardonnay 2024 is a dry white wine from South Tyrol with a delicate texture. It presents itself in a greenish-yellow hue. The Cantina Tramin Chardonnay surprises with its subtle elegance and captivates with its floral notes, paired with spicy minerality. On the palate, refreshing citrus fruit combines with riper notes of pineapple, banana, yellow apple, and pear. This South Tyrolean wine displays a refreshing, minerality-driven acidity and good fullness. The Cantina Tramin Chardonnay is a versatile food companion, pairing well with richer, creamy dishes such as pan-fried salmon, Rösti with mushroom ragout, or chicken in a cream and white wine sauce.

Cantina Tramin – Winemaking

The mild winter of the 2024 vintage with sufficient rainfall, as well as a warm March also blessed with rain, led to an early budbreak of the vines. Subsequently, it was rather cool and damp until the end of June, apart from a few early summer days in April. The summer was warm with many hours of sunshine, and a rainy autumn extended the grapes' growing season. Overall, 2024 was a challenging vintage, requiring many extra hours of work in the vineyard. Thanks to a consistent implementation of the quality philosophy, the winemakers' experience, and the cooperation within the cooperative, Cantina Tramin was able to harvest grape material of remarkable quality, particularly for white grape varieties and Pinot Noir. Thus, the white wines of the 2024 vintage are delicate and fresh in the glass, while among the reds, the elegance of the Pinot Noir stands out.

The Chardonnay vines for this Cantina Tramin wine grow on clay soils with limestone and gravel on hillsides between 250 to 550 m above sea level. The grapes were harvested by hand in several passes at the optimal physiological ripeness and transported to the winery in small containers. There, they were destemmed and gently pressed. Fermentation took place at a controlled temperature (19°C) in stainless steel tanks, where aging, partly with malolactic fermentation, also occurred.

Chardonnay – a South Tyrolean wine and its characteristics