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Notes from the Loire harvest

A week of picking Chenin Blanc, and the wines coming to our harvest dinner.

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22 September 2026
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Magnus Holm
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A bottle of orange wine, two glasses and pickles on an oak table by a rainy window, candles lit
Crates of plaice and cod on ice on the quay beside a small blue fishing boat

Five in the morning at Gilleleje

Where our fish comes from, and why we take whatever the boats bring in.

Jars of pickled gooseberries, carrots, sauerkraut, rosehips and sea buckthorn on an oak bench against whitewashed brick

Why we ferment everything

Summer does not last long in Denmark, so we put as much of it as we can in jars.

Long wooden tables with linen runners and candles in an ivy-covered cobbled courtyard

The courtyard is open

Long tables under the pear tree, every Friday and Saturday until September.

Hands picking wild ramsons into a willow basket in a beech forest

Ramsons in the beech woods

The first green thing of the year, picked by hand in Nordsjælland.

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