Thorncroft - cordials, fruit and sparkling drinks

“Thorncroft have packed the very essence of field and hedgerow in a bottle … Fill up your cart with their Rosehip, Pink Ginger, Cranberry and Hibiscus, Elderflower or Nettle cordial so you’ve got a refreshing non-alcoholic bevvie for booze-free nights” (Mirror M magazine)

“I like the idea that one could, in theory, knock up a three-course lunch with the pickings of a morning’s ramble” (Giles Kime, Sunday Teleraph)

“The ingredients for the cordials are harvested by hand from hedgerows and fields, with seasonality and freshness the dictating factors” (Garden News)

Traditional Cordials

Thorncroft Traditional Cordials are plant based drinks, not fruit cordials, with a hedgerow theme and an emphasis on fine natural flavour. They are all also associated with health benefits – hardly surprising as most of them have their roots in ancient herbal medicine. Choose from Elderflower, Nettle, Pink Ginger, Rosehip, and Cranberry and Hibiscus.

Thorncroft Traditional Cordials are extremely concentrated. Many dilute-to-taste plant based drinks are thin and watery, sometimes as low as 3 parts cordial diluted to 1 part water, and rarely above 8 to 1. Thorncroft Cordials are so concentrated they only need to be diluted at a rate of between 12 and 15 to 1.

This is not because they contain more sugar – most cordials contain similar amounts – but because of the high levels of other ingredients, which allows them to taste good even when the sugar levels are diluted down as far as one third of the level found in standard fizzy drinks. This means that a bottle of Thorncroft Cordial (which retails from £2.39) is great value, as it makes as much as 5 litres of drink.