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Midnight Sun
Spiritsaperitif

Midnight Sun

A Nordic-inspired 0% aperitif from Salcombe Distilling Co., built around wild seaberries, elderberries, kelp, and pine — coastal and complex in equal measure.

About This Drink

Midnight Sun is the most adventurous thing in the New London Light range. Where the Original channels classic gin botanicals and Aegean Sky goes Mediterranean, this one heads somewhere genuinely unusual: the Nordic coast. Seaberries and lingonberries provide the berry backbone, elderberries add depth and a soft tartness, samphire and kelp bring saline coastal character, Icelandic moss lends earthy herbaceous weight, and pine resin threads through everything with a cool, resinous note. Alexanders — a wild coastal herb related to celery — rounds it out. It's an unusual combination that works better than it has any right to. The production process is the same across the New London Light range: botanicals are steeped in neutral grain spirit and distilled in a rotary vacuum still at low temperature, which strips the alcohol without losing the volatile flavour compounds. The concentrated distillate is blended with natural flavours and stabilised with kombucha. The result is a 0% spirit with genuine texture — the xanthan gum helps too, giving it more body than most AF spirits manage. At 70cl and around £26, it sits at the same price point as the rest of the range. Serve long over ice with tonic, a sprig of fresh mint, and a raspberry. It was awarded a 2022 Beverage Testing Institute Gold. Vegan and allergen-free.

Ingredients

Water, grape juice from concentrate, kombucha, natural botanical distillates and extracts (elderberry, seaberry, samphire, kelp, Icelandic moss, pine, alexanders, lingonberry). Acids: tartaric acid, malic acid. Acidity regulator: sodium citrate. Preservatives: potassium sorbate, sodium benzoate. Thickener: xanthan gum.

Dietary

VEGANGLUTEN-FREE

Tasting Notes

Taste

SWEET SEABERRY AND LINGONBERRY FRUIT ON ENTRY ELDERBERRY TARTNESS IN THE MID-PALATE FAINT COASTAL SALINITY FROM KELP AND SAMPHIRE RESINOUS PINE THREADING THROUGH TO THE FINISH

Aroma

ELDERFLOWER AND FRESH PINE ON THE NOSE WILD BERRY SWEETNESS HERBACEOUS DILL EARTHY ICELANDIC MOSS

Character

Appearance
DEEP GARNET
Finish
LONG AND DRYING; ELDERBERRY TARTNESS SAGE PINE RESIN AND A LASTING SALINE NOTE

Production

Botanical steep in neutral grain spirit distilled in rotary vacuum still to remove alcohol; blended with natural flavours and stabilised with kombucha

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Dietary

VEGANGLUTEN-FREE

Tasting Notes

Taste

SWEET SEABERRY AND LINGONBERRY FRUIT ON ENTRY ELDERBERRY TARTNESS IN THE MID-PALATE FAINT COASTAL SALINITY FROM KELP AND SAMPHIRE RESINOUS PINE THREADING THROUGH TO THE FINISH

Aroma

ELDERFLOWER AND FRESH PINE ON THE NOSE WILD BERRY SWEETNESS HERBACEOUS DILL EARTHY ICELANDIC MOSS

Character

Appearance
DEEP GARNET
Finish
LONG AND DRYING; ELDERBERRY TARTNESS SAGE PINE RESIN AND A LASTING SALINE NOTE

Production

Botanical steep in neutral grain spirit distilled in rotary vacuum still to remove alcohol; blended with natural flavours and stabilised with kombucha