Nordingrå

Nordingrå sits on pink granite that glows in a colour found nowhere else on the Swedish coast — red boathouses perched above the High Coast's still-rising shoreline, fishing nets drying in a wind that smells of salt and spruce. Box Distillery produces Sweden's mainland single malt in a converted farmstead nearby. The combination of geology and whisky was perhaps inevitable.

Nordingrå is a coastal hamlet on the Höga Kusten (High Coast) in Västernorrland, part of the UNESCO-listed landscape shaped by post-glacial land uplift. The distinctive pink Nordingrå granite gives the shoreline its distinctive hue. Red boathouses line the harbour, and traditional coastal smokehouses cure fish using methods unchanged for centuries. Box Distillery, established in 2010 in a converted sawmill, produces single malt whisky from local barley and High Coast water — tastings and tours run year-round. The raised beaches above the harbour are visible evidence of the ongoing land rebound.