Nautical writer Peter Marsh suggested this little gem, something good (and tasty) evolving from climate change: The Slinde Vineyard, on a fjord in Slinde, Norway, is probably one of the last places you’d expect to find grapes growing, at 61 degrees north of the equator.

BBC.com, in a story about the owner, Bjørn Bergum, and his partner, Halldis, noted that the normal grape-growing range is from 30 to 50 degrees latitude. Nonetheless, now it’s warm enough in Slinde to grow grapes.

Bergum is passionately dedicated to the vineyard, the culmination of a longtime dream to make wine from grapes grown locally. But the problem isn’t the growing part, it’s convincing people that a Norwegian wine is not only possible, it’s good. Since many oenophiles won’t even try a Norwegian wine, Slinde wines have been entered into blind tasting competitions, and are winning awards.

“Since 2014 we have been hard at work,” Bergum says on the vineyard’s website, “creating what will soon become the northern-most commercial vineyard in the world — and we have done it with our own two hands.”

“So far,” he noted, “many of our efforts have produced excellent results.” Skål! (Photo: Slinde Vineyard)