As climate change is too hot for winemaking in southern Europe, viticulture is gaining momentum in Scandinavia.
Hokan Hansson has been growing grapes in the Hallocra vineyard for 17 years with Mick Daly. “We now have an extra month of summer,” Hansson says.
In European countries, wine is usually called depending on where the grapes grow - Bordeaux, Provence, Burgun. The remaining countries adhere to the grape variety classification: Cabernet, Shiraz, Merlot.
In the corner of his 18th-century manor house, Hokan Hansson, the fifth generation of his family working on this plot of land in southern Sweden, keeps a worn out set of diaries, but not only for sentimental reasons. Climate change is forcing wine producers to consider other grape varieties.
Since the early 1950s, Hansson's mother, an enthusiastic amateur meteorologist, has carefully recorded every detail of the weather in Skane County. Her notes show why, 70 years later, her son became a member of one of the fast-growing groups of increasingly successful and award-winning Swedish winemakers.
Direct speech: “This is really quite clear,” said 68-year-old Hansson, a former financier who planted his first vines on the southern slopes of what is now the Hallacra vineyard, and today has about 22,000 bushes on 6.5 hectares.
Direct speech: “We now have an extra month of summer. And winters are not the same as before. That is why we can make wine, and why 50 years ago we could not. "
- According to public health officials, tomatoes are probably the source of salmonella outbreaks in Sweden.
- This year, Koblevo PJSC harvested 400 tons of grapes per day, which is a record for the company. In general, during September, Koblevsky winegrowers harvested more than 10 thousand tons of grapes, which is 16% less compared to last year's harvest.
- Torrential rains caused serious damage to the grape harvest in Alicante and Murcia, which significantly reduced production volumes.
