Swedish Wine
2nd December 2024
It’s claimed that the first Vineyards in Sweden were planted by the Roman Catholic Church during the Medieval times in monasteries. There isn’t a ton of evidence to support this, but it is what we currently believe.
In more recent times, the Swedish people plant Vines in greenhouses or in a conservatory for the purpose of fruit or for table decorations, not for the production of Wine.
The Swedish Wine industry started to blossom at the end of the 1990s, but it’s still very small, with figures from 2020 putting it around 50 vineyards and from 2024 that figure has grown to around 150, producing around 300.000 litres of wine a year.
Sweden has two main wine regions:
- Scania
- Södermanland
The following list grapes are the authorised varieties for commercial wine production in Sweden:
White:
- Bacchus
- Bianca
- Chardonnay
- Kerner
- Madeleine Angevine 7672
- Malingre Précoce
- Merzling
- Müller-Thurgau
- Orion
- Ortega
- Phoenix
- Reichensteiner
- Riesling
- Sauvignon blanc
- Seyval blanc
- Siegerrebe
- Solaris
- Vidal blanc
- Zalas Perle
Red:
- Acolon
- Cabernet Dorsa
- Cabernet Franc
- Frühburgunder
- Garanoir
- Léon Millot
- Merlot
- Pinot noir
- Regent
- Rondo
Oliver Walkey
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