{"id":693,"date":"2017-08-30T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T22:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2019-04-03T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T19:15:23","slug":"ved-stranden-10-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"ved Stranden 10, Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of the world\u2019s great cities have landmarks that are central to their images.\u00a0 Tourists and locals alike gather at the Eifel Tower, Big Ben, the Coliseum and Time Square.\u00a0 Other cities without such internationally known monuments offer something different; they\u2019re great hanging out cities.\u00a0 San Diego is one; so are Milan, Amsterdam and Madrid.\u00a0 Let us introduce you to yet another, Copenhagen, and in particular a wine taster\u2019s destination bar known by its address, ved Stranden 10.<\/p>\n

First about the city.\u00a0 The most famous locale in Copenhagen is Nyhavn, which is a long harbor, mostly for fishing and tourism boats.\u00a0 All the buildings along the harbor are brightly colored and alongside is a long row of cafes under welcoming umbrellas.\u00a0 Of course it\u2019s full of tourists, but you find Danes there as well, especially at night. As we said, it\u2019s a great place to hang out.\u00a0 But so are the sidewalk restaurants on Gothersgade; the big square in the fashionable shopping district, in the middle of H\u00f8jbro Plads (or Place); and the Street Food center across the main harbor.<\/p>\n

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Nyhavn, Copenhagen\u2019s \u201cnew harbor\u201d, only 300 years old<\/em><\/p>\n

Which brings us to ved Stranden 10 (http:\/\/www.vedstranden10.dk\/<\/a>). It\u2019s located alongside a canal \u00a0and from the outside, it\u2019s an unassuming building on a quiet little street.\u00a0 In warm weather, they have tables outside along the canal.\u00a0 Ved Stranden 10 is a wine store and also a wine bar.\u00a0 Inside, there\u2019s a very small bar up front with pourers, waiters and customers scurrying about like mad.\u00a0 There are a few tables and stools along one wall, but for the most part all you can do in the bar is stand and order.\u00a0 There are several more rooms that are far more like someone\u2019s rather chic Danish Modern living room than a wine bar.<\/p>\n

So far, so nice.\u00a0 What differentiates ved Stranden 10 from all other wine bars we\u2019ve ever been to, is that most of the waiters are sommeliers and that there is no wine list!\u00a0 Instead, you negotiate with your waiter.\u00a0 He or she will ask, \u201cWhat do you feel like drinking?\u201d.\u00a0 Maybe one wants a light white, somewhat austere, not very fruit forward and the other a robust red, chewy and full of fruit.\u00a0 (That would be Lucie and Steve, respectively.)\u00a0 The waiter will get a few glasses and bottles and pour little tastes.\u00a0 \u201cDoes this work for you?\u201d\u00a0 If so, your glass will be filled.\u00a0 If not, he or she will go get something else.\u00a0 No one goes away disappointed.<\/p>\n

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Inside ved Stranden 10<\/em><\/p>\n

You can\u2019t say, \u201cI\u2019ll have a Pinot Noir\u201d or a Bordeaux or a Sauvignon Blanc. They don\u2019t work that way. You tell them you like Bordeaux but they don\u2019t carry Bordeaux.\u00a0 They will bring you a taste of what they think is similar to Bordeaux.\u00a0 \u00a0They have a lot of wines from obscure places, like Serbia or Turkey or some valley in Italy you\u2019ve never heard of.\u00a0 So the light white wine came from Sardinia and the big red was a Blaufrankisch from Austria.\u00a0 We might have ordered those ourselves, but if there were something on a list that was more familiar, we never would have gotten to these wines.\u00a0 The result is that we both got to drink some wines we weren\u2019t familiar with, that met our taste preferences at that moment.<\/p>\n

A word about the glasses.\u00a0 If you choose to sit outside, they will use very nice glassware, but nothing you\u2019d notice one way or the other.\u00a0 But inside, they use some of the most delicate stemware we\u2019ve ever drunk from.\u00a0 The glasses are very light and the stems are so thin you feel like you\u2019re going to snap them with your fingers. \u00a0(We didn\u2019t.)\u00a0 They don\u2019t use them outside because the slightest breeze would knock them over.<\/p>\n

Fair warning: you\u2019ll have such a good time at ved Stranden 10 that when it\u2019s time to sum up and pay, because you have no idea what the cost was of\u00a0that glass of wine that you just ordered (remember, no wine list), \u00a0you\u2019ll find that you had so many wines that the bill is bigger than you thought it would be.\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably conclude that it was money well spent, like we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of the world\u2019s great cities have landmarks that are central to their images.\u00a0 Tourists and locals alike gather at the Eifel Tower, Big Ben, the Coliseum and Time Square.\u00a0 Other cities without such internationally known monuments offer something different; they\u2019re great hanging out cities.\u00a0 San Diego is one; so are Milan, Amsterdam and Madrid.\u00a0 … Continue reading ved Stranden 10, Copenhagen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}