
Rhubarb
A limited-edition rhubarb aperitif concentrate built on the same apple cider vinegar base as Mother Root's Ginger, bringing chinotto citrus, angelica root, and oak into the mix for something tart, complex, and designed to stand in for a glass of rosé.
About This Drink
The Rhubarb follows the same structural logic as Mother Root's original Ginger — apple cider vinegar as a base, blossom honey for balance, concentrated juice as the lead flavour. Here it's rhubarb and apple concentrate alongside angelica root extract, chinotto and ginger natural flavours, and a nod to oak extract. Two years in development, apparently. In practice, it's designed as a spritz-style drink rather than a sipping concentrate. The recommended serve is 25ml into a champagne flute, topped with 150ml cold soda water — closer to a sparkling wine replacement than an aperitif you'd mix seriously. At that dilution it's genuinely light, tart, and aromatic, with the chinotto adding a dark citrus note you wouldn't get from rhubarb alone. It's a seasonal limited edition, which means stock doesn't hang around. The 500ml bottle at £32 is more expensive than the Ginger, though the same 1:6 serve ratio applies, so you get roughly 20 serves from it. Worth a look if you want something that drinks more like a glass of rosé than a soft drink.





