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MORE BARS FOR THE TERROIRISTS The Swedish wine ba
r scene is having growing pains. We are presented with more and more opportunities to drink good wine without having to walk very far. It’s gone from ground-breaking and exclusively for the initiated, to trendy through popular to mainstream. Is the final destination little unassuming wine bars on every street corner? Words: Peter Steen-Christensen The wine bar. A relatively new acquaintance I’ve made here in my adulthood, but it already feels like we can tell each other everything. Possibly because the wine bar makes me feel at ease and I feel I can be myself. Many years ago, we walked around eyeing each other up without really making any approaches, but now, after we have laughed, cried and made fools out of ourselves together, 12 we know each other inside out. The wine bar is not as judgemental or stuck up as I thought during my younger years - on the contrary, the wine bar offers only spontaneous and instructive company, is full of surprises, and is most certainly an unrivalled wingman in the search for new loves. Our relationship is probably a mirror image of countless of other relationships. The wine bar might not be as new and trendy a feature in the streetscape as it once was, when they first arrived a few years ago. But they have become established, made themselves understood and now have an obvious place in our bar scene. Of course, a lot of people’s relationship with wine in general has developed strongly over the last few years, and we see a thirst for