Gewurztraminer

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Gewurztraminer is best known for its wines from Alsace in North-eastern France, but it is widely planted in other French wine regions as well as in many countries throughout Central and Eastern Europe.

It has a dozen synonyms including Traminer, Rotclevner, Savagnin Rose, Fermin Rouge, Fromenteau Rouge, Ranfolzia, Kleinwiner, Drumin, Heida, Mala Dinka, Pinat Cervana, Liwora.

In Australia this variety is also known as Traminer, especially in the warmer regions where it is most commonly used as a blending companion for Riesling.

In cooler wine regions of Australia, Gewurztraminer produces highly aromatic wines, which lead many to assume (wrongly) that they are sweet wines. But these are serious dry white wines that deserve more attention than they get.

Gewurztraminer wines are different; they are highly scented, like rose petals rubbed between your fingers. They are undeservedly written off as something to drink with spicy Asian food, as if you need to mask the bold statement that they make.

Gewurztraminer and food pairing

'no one makes good Gewurztraminer by accident'

There are some great Gewurztraminers from most cool Australian wine regions. Put aside your prejudices about sweet wines and try some of these aromatic dry whites!

Australian wineries using Gewurztraminer variety

• 5 Corners Wines Mudgee
• 572 Richmond Road Southern Tasmania
• Angoves Winery Riverland
• Ashton Hills Adelaide Hills
• Audrey Wilkinson Hunter Valley
• Bay of Fires Northern Tasmania
• Beelgara Estate Riverina
• Belgravia Vineyards Orange
• Bianchet Yarra Valley
• Birthday Villa Vineyard Macedon Ranges
• BK Wines Adelaide Hills
• Blackets Adelaide Hills
• Borrodell on the Mount Orange
• Bowmans Run Beechworth
• Bracken Hill Southern Tasmania
• Brammar Estate Yarra Valley
• Bream Creek Vineyard Southern Tasmania
• Briar Ridge Vineyard Hunter Valley
• Bungawarra Granite Belt
• Burke and Wills Winery Heathcote
• Capercaillie Hunter Valley
• Cargo Road Wines Orange
• Cassegrain Hastings River
• Chatsfield Mount Barker
• Conte Estate Wines McLaren Vale
• Contessa Estate McLaren Vale
• Craigow Southern Tasmania
• Cross Rivulet Southern Tasmania
• Delatite Winery Upper Goulburn
• Elliot Rocke Estate Mudgee
• Elsewhere Vineyard Southern Tasmania
• Ernest Hill Wines Hunter Valley
• Felsberg Winery Granite Belt
• Fernfield Wines Eden Valley
• Frogmore Creek Vineyard Northern Tasmania
• Gin Gin Wines Queensland Coastal
• Glen Erin Vineyard Resort Macedon Ranges
• Gnadenfrei Estate Barossa Valley
• Golden Grape Estate Hunter Valley
• Grandview Vineyard Southern Tasmania
• Grevillea Estate South Coast Zone
• Hainault Perth Hills
• Henderson Hardie King Valley
• Henschke Eden Valley
• Heritage Farm Goulburn Valley
• Hidden Creek Granite Belt
• Hillside Estate Hunter Valley
• Hood Wines Southern Tasmania
• Hunting Lodge Estate South Burnett
• Huntleigh Vineyards Heathcote
• Iron Pot Bay Wines Northern Tasmania
• Ivanhoe Wines Hunter Valley
• Jamsheed Yarra Valley
• Jindalee Estate Geelong
• Josef Chromy Wines Northern Tasmania
• Kangderaar Vineyard Bendigo
• Kellermeister Wines Barossa
• Kellybrook Yarra Valley
• Kevin Sobels Wines Hunter Valley
• Kirkham Estate Sydney Basin
• Kladis Estate Shoalhaven Coast
• Knappstein Wines Clare Valley
• Kreglinger Estate Mount Benson
• Lambert Vineyards Canberra
• Lancefield Winery Macedon Ranges
• Lawson Hill Mudgee
• Leabrook Estate Adelaide Hills
• Lillydale Estate Yarra Valley
• Lillypilly Estate Riverina
• Little Wine Company Hunter Valley
• Logan Wines Mudgee
• Long Point Vineyard Hastings River
• Lyre Bird Hill Gippsland
• Manton's Creek Vineyard Mornington Peninsula
• Midhill Vineyard Macedon Ranges
• Milton Vineyard Southern Tasmania
• Miramar Mudgee
• Moorebank Vineyard Hunter Valley
• Moorilla Estate Southern Tasmania
• Mount Macedon Winery Macedon Ranges
• Mudgee Wines Mudgee
• No Regrets Southern Tasmania
• Pepper Tree Wines Hunter Valley
• Petersons Glenesk Estate Mudgee
• Pewsy Vale Eden Valley
• Pipers Brook Vineyard Northern Tasmania
• Pirie Estate Northern Tasmania
• Platt's Rutherglen
• Plunkett Fowles Strathbogie Ranges
• Point Leo Road Vineyard Mornington Peninsula
• Ridgeview Wines Hunter Valley
• Robert Stein Mudgee
• Rosevears Estate Northern Tasmania
• Rymill Coonawarra Coonawarra
• Sailors Falls Winery Macedon Ranges
• Seldom Seen Mudgee
• Sevenhill Wines Clare Valley
• Shepherds Run Canberra
• Skillogalee Clare Valley
• Sorby Adams Eden Valley
• Souters Vineyard Alpine Valleys
• Southern Grand Estate Hunter Valley
• Southern Highland Wines Southern Highlands
• Spring Vale Wines Southern Tasmania
• Stonehaven Padthaway
• Straws Lane Macedon Ranges
• Sutherland Estate Yarra Valley
• Taliondal Hunter Valley
• Tamar Ridge Northern Tasmania
• Tanglewood Downs Mornington Peninsula
• Taylors Clare Valley
• The Minya Winery Geelong
• The Silos Estate Shoalhaven Coast
• The Wanderer Yarra Valley
• Tilba Valley South Coast Zone
• TK Wines Adelaide Hills
• Tomich Hill Adelaide Hills
• Toppers Mountain New England
• Transylvania Winery Southern New South Wales Zone
• Two Tails Wines Northern Rivers Zone
• Vicarys Sydney Basin
• Virage Margaret River
• Walsh Family Winery Perth Hills
• Warrenmang Vineyard Pyrenees
• Westend Estate Riverina
• Whyworry Wines New England
• Wili-Wilia Winery Macedon Ranges
• Wilson Vineyard Clare Valley
• Windy Ridge Vineyard Gippsland
• Winooka Park Central Ranges Zone
• Woodonga Hill Hilltops
• Wroxton Wines Eden Valley
• Yarraman Estate Hunter Valley
• Yass Valley Wines Canberra