Sipping a glass of local wine is likely not what springs to mind when visiting Scandinavia, but this colder, northerly region is emerging as a new wine frontier. Hundreds of commercial vineyards are now dotted across Denmark, Sweden, and even Norway, as a first generation of professional winemakers transform what was once a niche hobby into a small but flourishing industry.
Far north of France’s Bordeaux or California’s Napa Valley, more than 10,000 vines grow on a hillside on Zealand, Denmark’s biggest island. People have found out that it is actually possible to grow wine in Denmark, so newcomers are coming, year after year, says Nina Fink, as she shows the BBC her three-hectare (seven-acre) winery, Vejrhøj Vingård.
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