Sun 27 Jun 2021 04.00 EDT
Summer is a difficult time for chocolate makers. Many pause deliveries during the hotter months or turn their hand to something else. Chocolate doesn’t like heat, for obvious reasons.
So this week I’m bringing you something a bit different: drinks. The first is by
English Spirit, a small-scale distiller based close to me and which I first discovered at the excellent Lavenham Farmers’ Market. Let us not talk of the summer of the Raspberry Gin Liqueur, but instead of its Chocolate Clementine Liqueur, £18, which tastes wonderfully of chocolate and oranges, usually only available seasonally but bottled for now, just for