Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Chateau Nubbgatan is what two former sommeliers call their urban cidery in central Malmo - a cellar stacked to the ceiling with fermentation tanks, oak barrels, amphoras and bottles, a few minutes from Malmo Central Station. Fruktstereo was founded in 2016 by Karl Sjostrom and Mikael Nypelius, restaurant-trade veterans who set out to challenge how the Nordics think about wine and cider by fermenting the region's own fruit: apples, pears, plums, berries and the few grape varieties that ripen this far north. The method is strictly natural - only the fruit's indigenous yeasts, no additives, no filtration, no sulphites - and the raw material is largely rescued: foraged fruit from abandoned orchards and gardens and sorted-out produce from small growers, mostly in Skane. From a first 3,000-bottle run at the Hallakra vineyard, production has grown past 50,000 bottles a year, spanning ciders, fruit pet-nats and boundary-blurring co-ferments with names like Plumenian Rhapsody and Ciderevolution (also the title of the founders' book). Since 2021 the pair have farmed their own "fruityard" in Havang on Osterlen - 13.5 hectares of old free-standing orchard by the Baltic, replanted with grapes, quince and berries. The Nubbgatan cellar works as headquarters, laboratory and occasional public venue: bookable tastings, pop-up bars, wine-pairing dinners and one-day festivals with local record labels have all run at the address, and the sibling import company Vinstereo brings in natural wine from like-minded European growers. Visits are best arranged by email in advance.