Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:54:00

A wine atelier in Malmo's oldest quarter teaches the city to taste. Vinateljen on Vastergatan 3, in the cobbled Gamla Vaster streets between Stortorget and the canal, is a dedicated wine-tasting studio: not a bar with a list to drink through, but a room built for guided tastings, where groups sit down to flights arranged around a theme and a leader who talks them glass by glass. The programme runs the classic repertoire of the format - sparkling-wine evenings, Italian regional line-ups, chocolate-and-wine pairings - bookable as public events through Malmo's tasting calendars or as private sessions for companies, after-works, birthday groups and wedding parties. The atelier format keeps the scale intimate: a single room, a long table, and a host whose job is to make the subject approachable for beginners while leaving enthusiasts with something new. The address does some of the work. Vastergatan is one of Malmo's oldest streets, a low-rise line of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century houses in the quarter where the city's wine culture has clustered - the veteran wine bar L'Enoteca pours a few doors along at number 6C, and Lilla Torg's restaurant row is two minutes' walk. A tasting here slots naturally into an evening in the old town: session first, dinner in the lanes after, the whole quarter compact enough to cover on foot. Tastings typically run around two hours with five to eight wines and something to nibble between glasses, and the themes rotate with the seasons - bubbles before the holidays, new-world line-ups in the dark months, rose when the light returns. The format has made the atelier a fixture of Malmo's after-work and team-event circuit: small enough to feel private, professional enough that the wine talk survives the second glass, and central enough that nobody has an excuse to leave early.