Wine from Scandinavia: Good things lie far in the north

Aquavit, vodka and light beer; there is nothing else to drink in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. This cliché was never correct and is therefore simply wrong: not only thanks to increasingly informed consumption of imported wines but also thanks to a young winemaking culture in the North that often makes a positive out of the special conditions. The Danes, for example, currently consume two-thirds imported red wine, including ten percent rosé, and the market for sparkling wine is also growing. And even if natural wines are anything but big players on the world market with around two per cent of production, people in Copenhagen love these wines: The city ranks third in the world behind Paris and Tokyo in the consumption of this category.