Wine making in Sweden? You betcha. During the 2012 IFAJ Congress some of us toured Blaxsta Vineyard. We also sampled a merlot while we were there. The grapes for this particular wine came from Canadian vineyards of French stock.

Blaxsta Vineyard is located near Stockholm and is about as far north as you can grow grapes to make some good wine. The specialty as you might imagine is ice wine and Blaxsta has been a world competition winner with their’s for years. We got to sample that at the Saturday night closing banquet. You can learn more about the vineyard and how they grow their grapes in the video.

2012 IFAJ Congress Photo Album