AT THE NOBEL PRIZE banquet in Stockholm in December, not all the winners were seated at the table. A victor of a different kind could be found in the diners’ wine glasses. In 2024 a blind tasting had pitted(使竞争，使对立) a dozen of Europe’s finest wines against a dozen wines from Sweden. An international panel(专家小组，评审团) of 18 independent experts declared Immelen, a white wine from Kullabergs, a winery in the Skane region of southern Sweden, the overall winner, above famous whites from France, Italy and Spain. That made Immelen the obvious choice for the Nobel banquet. It was a coming-out party(正式亮相，登场派对) for Swedish wine.
去年12月在斯德哥尔摩举行的诺贝尔奖晚宴上，并非所有获奖者都坐在餐桌旁。另一种胜利者出现在宾客的酒杯中。2024年的一场盲品会将12款欧洲顶级葡萄酒与12款瑞典葡萄酒进行对决。由18位独立专家组成的国际评审团宣布，来自瑞典南部斯科讷地区库拉贝格斯酒庄的白葡萄酒伊梅伦为总冠军，超越了来自法国、意大利和西班牙的知名白葡萄酒。这使得伊梅伦成为诺贝尔晚宴的当然之选。这是瑞典葡萄酒的一场亮相派对。
Sweden is “a young wine country”, says Victor Dahl, chief executive of Kullabergs. EU approval for winemaking in Sweden and Denmark, required for commercial production, was granted(授予，批准) only in 1999. There are now about 50 commercial wineries(酿酒厂，酒庄) in Sweden. Sales are still tiny—just a drop in the barrel(沧海一粟，九牛一毛) by global standards—but growing quickly.
库拉贝格斯首席执行官维克托·达尔表示，瑞典是“一个年轻的葡萄酒国家”。欧盟对瑞典和丹麦酿酒业的批准（商业生产所需）直到1999年才获得。目前瑞典约有50家商业酒庄。销量仍然很小——按全球标准只是沧海一粟——但增长迅速。
At the Nobel banquet, Mr Dahl moonlighted(兼职，从事第二职业) as a waiter so he could hear what the diners thought. Such was their level of interest that he was soon unmasked and invited to introduce the wine.(他们的兴趣如此之高，以至于他很快被揭穿身份并被邀请介绍这款酒。) “They had so many questions,” he recalls.
在诺贝尔晚宴上，达尔先生兼职当服务员，以便能听到宾客们的想法。他们的兴趣如此之高，以至于他很快被揭穿身份，并被邀请介绍这款酒。“他们有很多问题，”他回忆道。
