Damson Tree
Damson Tree
Winner of two gold stars at The Great Taste Awards, Gemma Standeven of Damson Tree tells her story, "For years I enjoyed making damson liqueur to enjoy with family and friends. A childhood spent in the rolling hills of Herefordshire meant an annual glut of the sweet, plum-like fruit. Using old recipes, we used them up in jams and puddings. Visitors, though, were always particularly tickled by our famously good damson liqueur. By popular demand I started increasing production in 2005. I went from steeping them in empty litre bottles of vodka, to the slightly larger demi-johns and now small barrels. That was it, the start of Damson Tree."