Sabile Wine Hill
Sabile Wine Hill is oficially the world’s most northern vineyard, as mentioned in Guiness World Records Book.
Height of Wine Hill is 33.7m (about 115m above sea level), area of the vineyard is 1.5 hectares.
The production of wine took place here already in 16th century but rebirth of the vineyard began in 1936. Then WWII stopped its development which again restarted in 1989. This vineyard has been so important to the town of Sabile, that the wine grape has become the symbol of the town and is displayed on its coat of arms.
The best time of the year when to visit Sabile and its wineyard is the last weeks of July when Sabile Wine Festival takes place. In 2009 Wine Festival will be held on July 25th.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Sory but this is not exactly correct. Northernmost wineyard is Hallingstad vinery in Horten, Norway - near Oslo, established in 1992 and produced wine until 2002. Now it stopped business but technically this still is northernmost wineyard in the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten
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Their Website:
http://www.munchwine.com/vineyard.htm
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http://blog.winesworld.com/index.php/lesprit-d-edvard-munch-wine-collection/120/
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In Finland at Oliluoto there is also one winery even more to the north - that one is warmed by atomic power plant, so may be this does not count…
February 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Well, this whole thing is from the Guiness World Records Book. Wineyard of Sabile is all natural, and it produces wine available for the public. I guess there must be some criteria met to get into the Book, but that’s what Sabile did.
September 16th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
[...] more photo from Sabile vineyard. You can also taste the wine at the entrancee but don’t expect too much of it. This [...]
February 14th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
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