28/04/2026
As the first elderflower of the year starts to blossom, it feels like the right moment to introduce Against the Tide. Each year, we work with elderflower. It’s a flavour people recognise, usually soft, floral and fleeting. But rather than repeat it, we’ve taken it somewhere new.
At the drink’s core is our wild Worcestershire, developed slowly over three years, beginning with fermented elderflower. Each season, we bring new flowers back into that base. What starts off bright and fragrant becomes deeper, more savoury, more complex, a different expression of the same ingredient.
Built around that is salmon-washed Bán Poitín and Dunville’s Three Crowns Peated. Using off-cuts from Sally Barnes’ wild salmon, smoked fins and trimmings that might otherwise be overlooked, we infuse a delicate salinity and a deep, clean smokiness into the spirit. Around that, lacto-fermented tomato and house hot sauce add depth, acidity and a gentle, lingering heat.
Inspired by Sally Barnes of Woodcock Smokery, Against the Tide is a smoky, savoury drink that leans into time, patience, and doing things properly. It’s a little fierce, a little wild, and completely on its own terms.
AGAINST THE TIDE
• Smoked Salmon Washed Bán Poitín
• Dunville’s Three Crowns Peated Whiskey
• White Port
• 3 Year Aged Wild Worcestershire
• Fermented Hot Sauce
• Lacto Tomato
