>Summer would be a good idea right now.

Weeks of low clouds and fog and cold, followed by normal clouds and cold.

So yes, summer would be good.

But Anja Quäschning (and that IS the correct spelling, umlaut and all…) has encapsulated summer and you can buy her stuff on the market in Mainz (although she’s actually from Wiesbaden.)

Her company’s called the Deutsche Blütensekt Manufaktur and she distills the extract from blossoms ranging from acacia to sage by steeping them in spring water (although I guess you can also use spring water in summer….) and waving her magic wand and reciting incantations over them.

I think.

What goes into the bottle will knock your socks off, although I tend not to get quite as breathless as the rest of the team about some of the more dubious concoctions.

It’ll also knock a sizeable hole in your wallet – smallish bottle costs an arm, a leg and a couple of extra bits – but a little goes a long way.

A couple of drops of the red chestnut syrup gives salad dressings a real zing and a glass of mineral water definitely benefits from a glug of citrus syrup.

There’s also a sparkling blossom wine which is POA only

Not a big surprise, when you consider that it takes 20 cubic feet of hand-picked blossoms to make a single bottle….

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