While the new trend may be adopting a “Dry January” after the indulgences of the holiday season, that doesn’t mean that one has to fill the month with drinking only water and green tea.  Seedlip, a distilled non-alcoholic spirit will be the perfect replacement for your typical gin & tonic if you, too are abstaining from alcohol this month. 

Seedlip was an innovation from Ben Branson, a British farmer, inspired by the book “The Art of the Distillation” written hundreds of years ago singing the praises of herbal remedies used to cure illness and prevent disease. Branson confirmed the need for distilling herbs to create more unique spirits sans alcohol after ordering a mocktail at a restaurant and being grossly underwhelmed. This “resulted in the development of Seedlip’s bespoke, six-week maceration, distillation, filtration, and blending process–for which each individual botanical ingredient is distilled separately, before blending. This process results in a liquid devoid of alcohol and sugar”.

These unique botanicals will blend perfectly with tonic, club soda, or many of your other favorite mixers, and several dedicated books and websites are dedicated to the art of creating balanced, flavorful mocktails featuring Seedlip in many of these mixes. 

For those of you not doing a Dry January, don’t worry, I’m not either and will be back with wine recommendations again next week. Happy and Healthy New Year to you all!