The Drunken Botanist, her book on plants that create the world’s best drinks, “It took a renewed interest in wild, local, seasonal fruit to bring the sloe back from obscurity." The rich, rounded flavour is enhanced by the warming traces of spices or resonant flavours of other fruit.
Days later, as I uncork a bottle, I think back to the truth of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s evocative poem, Sloe Gin: “When I unscrewed it, I smelled the disturbed, tart stillness of a bush, rising through the pantry." Teja Lele writes on travel and lifestyle.
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