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It was in the year 1898 that Christian Schrott, parish priest of Tramin and deputy of the Austrian parliament, decided to found the Wine Producers’ Cooperative of Tramin, one of the first to appear in this zone. After more than a hundred years, the TRAMIN Winery is today a company which coordinates 280 wine growers, who follow its strict directives on the growing of vines over an area of some 230 hectares - hard yet fascinating work, which requires a great passion for the land and for nature. The final result is a top-class raw material which allows the production of wines that have both strength and elegance, complexity and immediateness. However, it is not only from a production perspective that the company has developed over the years. Distribution now extends to the furthest reaches of the national territory, thanks to the professionalism of agents and distributors; a network of importers assures the presence of Tramin wines on the most important international markets.

Today the name of Tramin is inextricably linked with the famous Aromatic Traminer wine, or Gewürztraminer. Ancient sources testify that already in the early Middle Ages this was a famous vine-growing and wine-producing area: the Retii (established in these parts around the first millennium BC) were familiar with wine-making, and the Romans probably drew from their experience (it appears that they learned the use of wooden barrels from them). This splendid strip of Alto Adige, consisting today of the towns of Tramin, Egna, Montagna and Ora, has since antiquity provided the ideal requirements to produce great wines. Such requirements are the result of the successful combination of human industry and favourable environmental factors, which include sunny slopes with varying soil types, specific microclimatic zones and an altitude that varies between 250 and 700 meters above sea level. These elements make Tramin a place of harmonious beauty, where the vineyards are an integral part of the enchanting landscape.