Mother Root Marmalade Switchel

Intense mouth-filling flavours

4.5/5
Add to Bookmarks Add to Bookmarks
Add to Bookmarks

ABV:

0%

Typical Price:

£28.00

Review

Mother Root Ginger Switchel is one of my favourite alcohol-free drinks, a bold, gutsy mix that punches you in the taste buds and gives the same sort of full-of-body, cheek-puckering experience that one can get from a good acidic wine.  Not that a switchel is a wine substitute – it’s not trying to imitate anything else, although its use of vinegar offers a nod to the fact that fermented grapes have worked their magic in different ways in both wine and switchels.  It’s a big mouth-filling flavour that makes confident use of apple cider viengar.

Following the success of their ginger switchel, Mother Root have now come up with a second drink, this time centring on the flavours of marmalade.  It’s an inspired choice.  Although it’s gentler than the ginger-and-chilli flavours of their first production, the bitterness of orange evokes a similar mouth response.   The nose is disconcertingly vinegary – one needs to be careful to balance the mixture of tonic and switchel.  Too much of the latter, and the aroma tips over into chip shop.  But get the mix just right (it’s not hard – they give proportions on the bottle, but I was greedy and added more) and it’s delicious. It opens with the strongly acidic hit of cider vinegar, mellowed by the warmth of brown sugar, with a touch of tea to give a tannic complexity, and then, coming through as a second act, the beautifully balanced sweetness, acidity and tartness of a good seville orange marmalade.  I could imagine sitting sipping this with some good blue cheese in front of a wood fire

 

 

Makers Notes

This bright and bitter blend of Seville orange, fragrant cardamom, grassy green tea and racy apple cider vinegar is lip-smackingly good over ice with a splash of light tonic and a ruby red grapefruit wedge.

Tasting Notes

  • Colour: Strong cold tea
  • Nose: fermented apple notes
  • Taste: gloriously mouth filling
  • Finish: the bitterness of oranges lingering on the palate

Have you tried this drink already?

Other Drinkers' Ratings

Type
Kombuchas, etc
Origin
UK
Producer
Mother Root Ltd
Bottle size (ml)
480
Vegan
No
Gluten Free
Yes
Calories Kcal/100ml
56
Colour
Peaty water
Style
Switchel
Principal ingredients
Apple Cider Vinegar, water, demerera sugar, cardamom, green tea
Flavours
Bitter orange
Sugars
Yes
Shelf Life
Refrigerate and consume within 28 days

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Mother Root Marmalade Switchel”
You can BUY this drink from any of the on-line Supplier(s) below.  Just click on their logo:
Mother Root

Or this drink may well be available from your high street supplier  – we’re sorry we cannot check them all but you might like to.

You might also like to see what other drinks are available from different on-line suppliers:

Share on Social

Join Our Mailing List