Growing our range

At those first few markets we were selling 5 liqueurs made with fruit from the garden: Blackberry, Strawberry, Plum, Raspberry and Blackcurrant. We’d still got a glut of plums so we infused some of them in Vodka and launched our Plum Vodka. The hedgerows were bursting with sloes and bullaces so we had a go at some Sloe and Bullace Gin.

But our best seller by a mile that first winter was our Christmas Pudding Vodka. We couldn’t make it fast enough. Based on a recipe by The Hairy Bikers, we made and bottled a batch and took it to market. Our customers loved it and we began making batches every week til Christmas.

We’ve always been massive fans of a snowy winter holiday so we had a go at mulling our plum vodka with the traditional spices of mulled wine - or Gluhwein as we knew it from our many winters in Germany and Austria. We added cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and mixed spices and our Winter Spiced Plum Vodka was born.

We noticed that a number of our customers were asking if we sold any Gin, and so we started to experiment with a small range of fruit gins. To date we’ve made Strawberry, Rhubarb, Gooseberry, Pomegranate, Seville Orange, Nectarine, Hedgerow Fruits, Redcurrant and Bramble varieties.