Tough economic conditions for Swedish wine production
Tough economic conditions for Swedish wine production
Aug 2, 2011 6
Production of Swedish wine is increasing slowly but surely. But producers are facing several challenges, as expensive distribution, and difficulties of living on the wine production alone.
Swedish wine? Really? Yes, the industry is very small, there are only 15 commercial producers, but the fact is that wine is produced in Sweden.
“All these four fields are located on a southern slope,” Göran Amnegård says to public radio SR, when he displays his vineyard, located in Blackstaby, 85 km south-west of Stockholm.
Six years ago, Göran Amnegård started planting the grapevines. The entire vineyard is 2.7 hectares (6.7 acres). He mainly cultivates a grape called Vidal blanc, which gives an ice wine. The vineyard produces 15 to 20 tons of grapes, who are left until December, freezes and then are picked.
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