Wine cooler: global heating helps Sweden's vineyards to success
by Jon Henley in Skåne from on (#50ZT3)
As climate change makes winemaking a torrid business in southern Europe, viniculture is taking off in Scandinavia
In a corner of his whitewashed 18th-century homestead, Hikan Hansson - the fifth generation of his family to farm this gently undulating stretch of land in southern Sweden - keeps a worn set of diaries, but not just for sentimental reasons.
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