"Traminer is a family of white grape varieties used in wine production, with the highly aromatic Gewürztraminer being the most well known and by far the most cultivated today. Traminer is an ancient cultivar of the European vine Vitis vinifera and a large number of other younger grape varieties have Traminer in their pedigree."
"The name Traminer is derived from the village of Tramin in South Tyrol, today part of Italy, where the original Traminer variety may have spread from. Modern-day Gewürztraminer, on the other hand, most likely developed much later in Germany by mutation."
"Traminer: Parent grape of the popular Gewürztraminer clone. Still grown in France and in California but almost everywhere has been replaced by its much more intense and aromatic offspring clone. This name is still used in Australia as an alias name for Gewürztraminer and itself is also known there under the alias name of Sauvignon Rose, (and should not to be confused with an identical alias used in France for a member of the Sauvignon Blanc cépage)."
Source: http://www.bryny.com/grapes.htm
"Traminer may have originated near Tramin in northern Italy. It is usually associated with the Baden region of southern Germany from where it expanded along the Rhine and Moselle rivers and into the Alsace region of northeastern France in the late Eighteenth Century. Traminer is found in Central Europe, in Germany mostly in the Baden and the Rheinpfalz regions, in France mostly in Alsace, in Austria, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, mostly California ."
