Stoan White Wine Cuvée – 2024

Stoan - a magnificent white wine cuvée from Cantina Tramin

The Cantina Tramin Stoan 2024 white cuvée is an elegant, dry white wine made from 65% Chardonnay, 20% Sauvignon, 10% Pinot Blanc, and 5% Gewürztraminer. Light golden in color, it shines in the glass and beguiles with fruity notes of white peach, apricots, ripe pear, elderberry, and exotic kumquats, complemented by white flowers such as jasmine and mimosa, as well as delicate spicy notes.

On the palate, it is present, harmonious, and balanced, with deep fruit aromas once again—this time of pineapple, banana, and pear—meeting vegetal hints of tomato leaves and green bell pepper. Lemon zest and a salty minerality linger in the long, slightly creamy finish.

Cantina Tramin – the 2024 vintage

The 2024 wine year began with above-average temperatures in spring, which favored early budding. Sustained warm temperatures in May led to a rapid bloom. Thanks to targeted work in the vineyards and occasional rain, the vines could be kept in a stress-free state despite summer phases of extreme heat. The harvest began almost two weeks earlier than usual. Because the weather was ideal, grapes of outstanding quality were harvested throughout the entire harvest period. The 2024 white wines exhibit a distinct, refined fruitiness with balanced acidity. The 2024 red wines are impressive; they benefit from a high degree of ripeness and develop complex fruit and a full taste with bold aromas.

The vines for this Cantina Tramin wine, some up to 40 years old, grow in hillside vineyards starting at 400m, though mostly between 500-600m above sea level, on gravelly, stony limestone debris and clay soils with an almost exclusively south-east exposure. They benefit from the Mediterranean climate during the day and cold downdrafts from the surrounding mountains at night. The grapes were harvested by hand in several passes at their respective optimal physiological ripeness—which depends on the grape variety—and brought to the winery building in small containers. There, they were destemmed and processed using gentle, long pressing. Fermentation took place separately by grape variety at a controlled temperature (18-20°C) in 30-40 hl wooden barrels, in which partial malolactic fermentation occurred. The must was clarified by natural sedimentation of the lees. The wine was aged on the lees in large wooden barrels for just under a year. After blending and bottling, the wine matured in the bottle for at least another 3 months.

Stoan 2024 – a wine and its values

• Origin Italy
• Region South Tyrol - Alto Adige DOC
• Winery Cantina Tramin
• Grape varieties Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Pinot Blanc, Gewürztraminer
• Vintage 2024
• 14% vol. alcohol
• 5.7g/l acidity
• 2.1g/l residual sugar
• 45 hl/hectare yield
• 60,000 bottles/year