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Lillypilly Estate 2005 Tramillon ®
Medium-dry white wine, made from traminer and semillon grapes.
Pale yellow colour with green tinge; lychee, floral and spicy; delicate with a lively finish.
LILLYPILLY'S UNIQUE BLEND
At the 1983 Royal Sydney Wine Show, Lillypilly Estate made a resounding debut on the Australian wine scene when one of its first wines, 1982 Tramillon ®, won a gold medal and the trophy for Best NSW White Wine.
This unique blend, which brings together two of the world's great white grape varieties — gewurztraminer and semillon — has become one of Lillypilly Estate's hallmark wines.
Gewurztraminer has its home in Alsace and makes wines that are extremely spicy, fragrant and seductive.
Semillon is an important variety in Bordeaux and also Australia, where it is widely grown in many regions, including the Hunter Valley, Margaret River, the Barossa Valley and the Riverina. It is an extremely versatile grape variety which can be used to make both luscious, sweet botrytised wines and crisp, fresh dry whites.
Lillypilly Estate's Tramillon ® combines the fragrance of gewurztraminer with the full-bodied freshness of semillon to provide an immensely satisfying slightly sweet white wine.
MEDIA REVIEWS — CURRENT VINTAGE
 Lillypilly Estate 2005 Tramillon ... Lillypilly's Robert Fiumara is a thoughtful winemaker who explores many different wine styles in his winery with great success. Tramillon is a tram iner-sem il Ion blend made into a slightly sweet wine of juicy gluggability.
CURRENT RELEASE 2005: The traminer component definitely leads the way here, imparting exotic lychee and Turkish delight aromas of seductive perfume. It's sweetish in the mouth with spicy traminer flavours of attractive intensity, but the sweetness doesn't quite reach a cloying level. It finishes soft in acidity yet clean and appetising. It might work with sweet and sour Chinese dishes. SEE CLIPPING Ralph Kyte-Powell & Huon Hooke, The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2007 |
 Best-value sweet white
Writing in his popular guide, Don't Buy Wine Without Me 2007, Stuart Gregor has selected the Lillypilly 2002 Noble Sauvignon Blanc as his best-value sweet white for the year. "This is one of the most delicious sweet wines I've tasted in years. And I like the fact that it's made from sauvignon blanc, it just seems to give the wine that extra little tang that cranks up the yum factor another notch. Always have a bottle of this in the fridge. FULL REVIEW Stuart also had some nice things to say about the Lillypilly 2005 Tramillon: "This is a wine that offers nice aromatics and some fruity sweetness, and it's a pretty good bet to accompany Indian food. FULL REVIEW |
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WHAT'S IN THE CELLAR: Lillypilly Estate 2005 Tramillon ... has perfume, fruitiness, slight sweetness and a crisp finish that works well with spicy dishes. Elaine Wilson, Gold Coast Sun, 7 June 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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WINE: The 2005 Tramillon is a mixture of semillon/traminer. A very perfumed nose ensues. The palate is richly flavoured with fruit intensity together with a clean acid finish for longevity. Jim McMahon, Education (Sydney) May 22, 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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THE GOOD LIFE: The arrival of a new Lillypilly vintage is always a welcome event, and the 2005 release of a Chardonnay, Tramillon and Red Velvet has not disappointed. Michael Southern, Pittwater Life (Sydney) May 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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DELIGHTFUL INDIVIDUALITY: Lillypilly 2005 Tramillon ... The 2005 Tramillon is a great partner on the table with Indian food, its perfumed bouquet, fruitiness, slight sweetness and crisp finish making it an ideal match for this and other Asian dishes. David Ellis, Melbourne Observer (Melbourne) March 29, 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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AUTUMN FLAVOURS: Lillypilly 2005 Tramillon ... Its perfume, fruitiness, slight sweetness and crisp finish are a perfect match for many spicy Asian dishes, though the wine has much broader food compatability as well. Ann Rickard, Noosa Magazine (Noosa) March 24, 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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Lillypilly 2005 Tramillon ... Two often much maligned grape varieties now united together in vinous matrimony pulled together to delight the olfactory senses and palate alike. Think rose petal, musk and lychee aromas, a very light spritz character, all delicate and fragrantly fruit on the nose. Lovely fresh accompanying acidity that offsets the fruit sweetness. Gorgeously light on the palate and delivered with a remarkable refreshing burst of fruity flavours. A good wine at around $12. Goes very well with Indian cuisine so try with pan fried green prawn cutlets with dry chillies, garlic, ginger and curry leave spices. Paul Ippolito, Brisbane Seniors Newspaper (Brisbane) April 2006 — SEE CLIPPING |
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Lillypilly Estate Tramillon Tramillon is the creation of Lillypilly's Robert Fiumara, combining traminer and semillon into a sweetish white that harks back in style to the popular 'moselle' of Australian wine history ... Aromatic, spicy traminer aromas head the bill with this sweetish white. SEE CLIPPING Ralph Kyte-Powell & Huon Hooke |
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RECOMMENDED: Lillypilly Estate Tramillon A delicious blend of gewurztraminer and semillon, this spicy, fruit-driven and slightly sweet wine is great on its own and food-friendly as well. SEE CLIPPING Dr Peter Hay |
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Lillypilly Estate 2002 Tramillon Twenty one years after putting together one of Australia's most unique white blends, the efforts of Leeton winemaker Robert Fiumara are still being rewarded. SEE CLIPPING John Fordham |
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