Celebrating Welsh food and drink

specialityfoodmagazine.com 43 Still Wild JAMES HARRISON-ALLEN Still Wild is an award-winningmicro-distillery based in the heart of the Pembrokeshire National Park. Founded in 2020, the distillery was born froma simple realisation: the wild botanicals of Pembrokeshire – sea herbs, hedgerow flowers, bitter estuarine plants – held unique, largely forgotten flavours. James saw that the cold vacuum still he first used during his biochemistry studies at university could gently capture these delicate aromas in a way traditional distillation could not. Still Wild began its journey with the launch of Wales’s first-ever Vermouth. The distillery now crafts small batches of premiumWelsh vermouths, aperitifs, bitters, and spirits. Every ingredient is hand-foraged fromone of Wales’s most biodiverse landscapes, reflecting a deep belief in terroir—the idea that flavour tells the story of place. In amarket dominated by imported brands, Still Wild is proudlyWelsh, fiercely local, and committed to sustainability. Nothing is outsourced; every stage – distilling, blending, bottling – happens on-site, ensuring full control over quality andminimal environmental impact. stillwilddrinks.com Mydflower MICHAEL DEW-VEAL Mydflower is pioneering a new category in sparkling wine: Wild Wine. They produce premium sparkling wines using wild foraged elderflowers and British berries, pureWelshmountain spring water from the Brecon Beacons, and Champagne yeast via the Charmat method. Unlike traditional wines Mydflower contain no grapes. Instead, the team ferments nature’s wild ingredients with the same precision and craftsmanship you’d expect fromfine wine. Founded on a farm inWales, Mydflower began with small- batch fermentations using elderflowers foraged locally in hedgerows andmeadows. Today, they bottle two expressions: Sparkling ElderflowerWine (8%) which is crisp, floral, golden and Sparkling RaspberryWine (8%) which is bright, ruby-hued, refreshingly wild. Mydflower is committed to showcasingWales as a leader in next-generation beverage innovation, with ambitions to establish wild wine as a global category originating fromWales. mydflower.com