VINLAND, THE NORTHERN LINK WITH WINE MAKING

When the Vikings sailed the seas ,they went to places ,which no other European had visited before . It took 500 years more , to the other western civilizations to know about these remote and hostile countries. Greenland was found first and then Vinland , which you can put on the map today on a place where is now New Foundland.Vinland means the land of wine, which must have been a paradise for the new explorers. One in the long list of bad news which the Vikings had,was that the biggest bacchanals was in Valhalla and it was not a local discotheque, it was the place to where the Valkyries took the defunct warrior.
So Vinland is indeed a real link to the ecological wine making and ethnic traditions to understand human behavior when they use wine in their daily life.The less additives, the less colorants the better the wine is.That is only my opinion of course, everybody can choose his wine using other criteria.
The best wine for me is simple,traditional,no additives,no colorants and a bottle which in a plain simplicity tells something about its maker.
With a good wine you start a tour to the human past and you can flavour it more with good cured cheeses.(more about Scanpolar INDEX to understand wine and wine making in www.vikingdrinks.blogspot.com

CHEF THOR