Inspired by the Parabola Apple — the crown jewel of The Newt’s walled orchard — this signature cocktail captures the estate’s pastoral elegance in a single glass.
25ml – The Newt Apple Gin
25ml – St Germain Elderflower Liqueur
5ml – Elderflower Cordial
75ml – The Newt’s Cyder
Garnish with Rosemary or Lavender from the garden and a thin slice of apple.
As well as 1000 acres of orchards, lakes, great crested newts, cider mills, a restored Roman villa, an apiary, a mushroom house, and a dragon’s grotto, the award-winning The Newt in Somerset, a luxurious country estate in Bruton in the West Country of England, also has its own signature cocktail.
As refreshing in summer as it is in the heart of winter.
The Palladian-fronted red-gold limestone Hadspen House dates to 1687. The Newt in Somerset, between Frome and Yeovil, holds “cyder” tasting sessions as well as butchery classes. You can also watch the resident cheesemaker at work on her buffalo mozzarella made with olive oil from the hotel’s sister estate in Babylonstoren, South Africa. Its Botanical Rooms restaurant features British classics like wood pigeon and venison. It is considered one of the best hotels in the UK.
Its gardens have been entirely redesigned by Patrice Taravella. The centrepiece is the egg-shaped Parabola walled garden, now planted with 460 trained British apple trees, of 267 varieties, arranged in a Baroque-style maze.
This story originally appeared on Upscalelivingmag
