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Good local food, wines to die for Sydkustens at Pillehill is regarded as one of the best wine destinations in southern Sweden, with a fabulous restaurant and a wine bar with an award-winning wine list. Plus, you can stay the night in the cosy four-star countryside hotel. By Malin Norman |
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Sydkustens at Pillehill is a restaurant, a wine bar and a small hotel on the south coast of Sweden, set up in 2015 by Jannike Briesenland-Lister and Johan Lister. “We have a passion for wine and food in combination, and decided to go all in,” says Briesenland-Lister, with a smile. She is the CEO but also head chef and sommelier, setting the menus and deciding the recipes, using wines as the base.
if possible and with ingredients picked from their own garden. The dream of developing a true wine destination is well on its way to reality, with an award-winning wine list, a continuously-developing wine cellar with high-quality wines, popular tasting events, and even vines growing outside the window.
From the outset, the founders have focused on the combination of fabulous wines and tasty food, locally produced
The restaurant has a set menu that varies based on the seasons – sometimes on a daily basis, depending on what is
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Food and wine destination with local produce
available from local suppliers. The chef bases the menu and recipes on the wines, which is quite unusual: “You can cook food in so many different ways and add a wide range of spices and herbs, but you can’t change the flavour of the wine. That’s why I use wine as a starting point and go from there.” Local produce is clearly important, also when it comes to wine. What many might not know is that despite the cool climate, Sweden has been an official wine country since 1999. These days there are some 60 commercial wine producers, focusing mainly on white wine, sparkling wine and rosé. “The types of green grapes cultivated there are aromatic and have high fruit acid, resulting in refreshing wines with green notes, which pair really well