from Meadow 1
The crunch of your boots on fresh snowfall in the mountains, bright blue sky, cold air in your lungs with the promise of a clear day ahead. Notes of mountain juniper, Swiss aronia berry and cooling mint, invigorate your senses.
The perfect base for alcohol-free long drinks & cocktails.
Mix suggestion
With Tonic, garnish: juniper berries
Taste: Tart, aromatic
Scent: Intensely fruity
The plant is often found in bee pastures and is very attractive to wild bees.
The black currant is considered the healthiest berry because it is full of antioxidants and vitamins.
The French abbot Pierre Bailly de Montaran recommended the dark fruit in 1712 as a guarantee of a long and healthy life. But his secular compatriots did not only appreciate the blackcurrant because of its medicinal talents: They invented the famous liqueur crème de cassis near Dijon in 1841, which is still used to enhance cocktails today.
Taste: delicately tart, sweet, sour
Scent: the flowers are fragrant and are very attractive to bees and other pollinators. It is mainly grown in Switzerland. It thrives particularly well in locations with high soil and air humidity, but also grows on stony, barren soil on slopes.
The Aronia berry is touted as a local super berry / superfood with an exceptionally high content of secondary plant compounds.
Taste: woody, fresh and resinous, flowery, slightly sweet aroma with a hint of peppery spiciness
Scent: warm, spicy, smells of conifers and resin
The juniper is also called the cypress of the north, it can present itself as a shrub, sometimes as a tree up to 15 meters high. It tolerates deep sub-zero temperatures and gets by with little moisture.
This coniferous plant is at home throughout the northern hemisphere and occurs in Switzerland at altitudes of up to 3,000 m.
