A Markfield Spritz
In collaboration with Crucible we made a drink from the garden itself — bittersweet, seasonal, local.
A spritz made from the fruit of Markfield — a small collaboration that lets the garden speak in a glass.
It starts in the garden. Hawthorn, rosehip, herbs and whatever the season is offering that week — picked by hand from the hedges and beds at Markfield.
At Crucible's distillery, the foraged fruit meets a shelf of botanicals — gentian root, burdock, cardamom, tonka. Bitter, aromatic, grounding. The garden gets a supporting cast.
Everything is prepped by hand — leaves broken down, fruit weighed, ratios walked back and forth until the balance is right.
Then it goes into the still. What comes out the other side is bittersweet, low-ABV, and unmistakably of this place — a drink you can only really make if you know the garden it came from.