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Botanical SparklingEst. 2019

Slow-pressed botanicals, carbonated cold and left alone.

Six flavours. No concentrate, no added sugar, nothing artificial. Pressed in Kent and bottled the same day.

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The bottle

Nothing added on the way out.

One press, one chill, one fill. The whole run moves from orchard to glass in under nine hours, which is the only reason it tastes like the fruit it came from.

Pressed
Cold, single pass
Sugar
None added
Carbonation
3.1 volumes
Shelf
Chilled, 21 days

Flavour

Six ideas,
none of them safe.

  • Sea Buckthorn

    2019

    Sharp, saline, apricot skin

  • Douglas Fir

    2020

    Green resin, lemon pith

  • Quince & Bay

    2022

    Honeyed, faintly savoury

What goes in

Eight things.

Everything on this list is something you could pick. There is no ninth ingredient hiding behind the words natural flavouring.

  • Sea buckthorn
  • Douglas fir tips
  • Quince
  • Bay leaf
  • Elderflower
  • Green cardamom
  • Lemon verbena
  • Blackcurrant leaf

1993 to now

My grandfather kept a press in the back of a bike shop. He sold fruit to people who had just ridden thirty miles and wanted something that tasted like it had been picked that morning.

VÉLO is that press, scaled up exactly as far as it can go without changing what comes out of it. We turned down two supermarket listings because they wanted a twelve-month shelf life. It does not keep for twelve months. That is the point.

Ines Marchetti

Ready when you are

Taste the difference nine hours makes.

First case ships chilled, next working day. If it is not the best thing you have opened this month, we will refund it without asking why.