Scandinavia’s Wine Scene Is Growing, Partially Due to Climate Change

"Håkan Hansson’s Hällåkra Vineyard, located 30 minutes from the southern Sweden city of Malmö, distributes wines to capital cities throughout Europe. Hansson planted vines in 2003 and reached a turning point just five years later. “We had two winemakers from Bordeaux who visited after reading about us. I was nervous, but when they tasted our wines, they said: ‘Wow, what acidity you have in the wine, we are losing that in France and Spain. Take care of that.’ He meant we should [embrace] it. And I thought–that–that’s the point of our wines.”"