![]() “At 50 kroner, anyone can come on board,” Martin says. When Martin opened Pompette with his business partner Jesper Emil Norrie last year, they listed wines at 50 kroner per glass. My partner and I wanted Pompette to be a place that made natural wines available to everyone, the way the winemakers intended.” ![]() “In France, most good natural winemakers sell their bottles for around five to fifteen euros,” he says, “but by the time they were reaching consumers in Denmark, I found they weren’t accessibly priced anymore. On returning to Copenhagen, he was surprised by the high cost. Sønne Steierland, Austria Sauvignon Blancīefore co-founding Pompette, Martin Ho spent ten years working with natural wines and their producers across Europe and the US. ![]() Cuvée 910 Macon, France Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Gamayģ. White Ecke Niederösterreich, Austria Welschriesling, Röter VeltlinerĢ. Ved Stranden 10 also offers a range of French-influenced dishes, including charcuterie, cheeses, and their famous croque monsieur.ġ. He continues, “we’re happy to give as many options as it takes to find something that’s agreeable, and the longer one works here, the better one gets at saying, “Ah! I know just what you want.” “So it requires quite a lot on our part to decipher what our guest are after.” “We have 1700 references but no wine list,” he says. With one of the city’s most extensive cellars, Maurice works closely with his guests to satisfy their needs. “Today, each of the wines we have here conveys a sense of time and place when they were harvested and from where.” “When we opened in 2009, the wines we enjoyed happened to be made with a sense of responsibility for the environment and weren’t full of chemicals and preservatives,” explains manager Maurice Chapman. Ved Stranden 10, an elegant wine bar that overlooks Christiansborg Palace, was one of the first to fully embrace natural wines in Copenhagen. Belloti: Rosso Étoile du Raisin 2007, Piemonte, Italy Barbera Laureano: “terme de guiu” 2017 Catalonia, Spain Macabeo, Granache blancaģ. Rkatsiteli-Mtsvane: “GoGo” 2017 Kakheti, Georgia Rkatsiteli and SaperaviĢ. He likes to do homemade charcuterie, using whole animals and game as much as possible.”ġ. “But we have a new head chef, Dave Harrison, who worked at Au Passage in Paris for six years. “We’re pretty fish and vegetable-focused,” Anders says. These wines also influence the restaurant’s cuisine: “Two weeks ago we did a whole Georgian week – full Georgian wine list, full Georgian menu,” Anders adds.ĭen Vandrette’s day-to-day menu features a range of small sharing dishes. “The country is really important within natural wine these days, and I think we, with Sune Rosforth, have been a big part of that.” “We import a lot of wine from Georgia,” says Anders. With links to producers all over the world, Den Vandrette’s wine selection is often eclectic. This bar has only ever been about natural wines.” “He’s half French and originally sourced his wines from the Loire valley. “Sune Rosforth started importing natural wines in the early 90s,” explains Anders Duedam, Den Vandrette’s manager. Rosforth & Rosforth, one of Denmark’s oldest natural wine importers, owns Den Vandrette, a bar and restaurant located close to Nyhavn’s seaward entrance. These are the best spots in the city to enjoy a glass or bottle of natural wine ( naturvin): Copenhagen’s natural wine scene is now one of the most dynamic in Europe. Chefs offering dishes with sustainable, seasonal ingredients sought beverages with similar properties, and found natural wine to be the perfect accompaniment. In Denmark, members of the New Nordic culinary movement were some of the first to bring natural wines to the public’s attention. Experts say this practice creates wines closely reflecting the climate and ecology of individual vineyards. Instead, they use environmentally sensitive cultivation methods and native yeasts during fermentation. Natural wine producers don’t work with industrial pesticides or preservatives. But while the French revere classic Bordeauxes and Italians praise Tuscan reds, Danes have a special penchant for natural wines. What is natural wine, or naturvin, and why do Danes love it so much? As a city famed for its beer traditions, Copenhagen isn’t somewhere you’d expect to find a thriving wine scene.
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