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.