PRODUCTION
Every harvest is a race against time.
The search
For the plants left behind.
Ebbor creates botanical drinks from rare cultivars and remarkable plants.
Modern agriculture has favoured yield, uniformity and ease of cultivation. Along the way, local varieties and entire orchards have been overlooked.
We search for exceptional fruit, berries and botanicals—and for the growers and places protecting them. A market for their harvest gives growers a reason to keep those varieties in cultivation.
Commodity markets value crops by weight and yield. We look instead at chemistry, flavour, rarity and provenance.
At harvest
Protect what is most fleeting.
A plant begins to change the moment it is picked. Aromas escape; light, heat, oxygen and enzymes begin to alter what the grower, landscape and season have produced.
Each harvest is preserved as close to its source as its character requires, then protected throughout its journey to Somerset. From that moment onward, speed and control matter.
The aim is to carry as much as possible of the plant's aroma, flavour and natural character from harvest into the bottle.
The laboratory
Every plant has a chemistry of its own.
Terpenes carry aroma. Organic acids and bitters structure taste. Anthocyanins and carotenoids contribute colour. Polyphenols, flavonoids and other naturally occurring compounds give us another way to understand what makes a raw plant distinctive.
The point is rarely one compound. We study a plant’s chemical fingerprint—and how it changes with cultivar, landscape, harvest window and season.
Our Somerset laboratory allows us to follow selected compounds through preservation, extraction and composition. Alongside aroma and taste, that work guides our search for plants and harvests that are genuinely exceptional.
Analysis helps us understand what makes a plant remarkable. The final bottle has to taste exceptional.
Extraction
Each plant sets its own process.
A citrus peel, flower, berry and leaf do not surrender their character in the same way.
Time, temperature and method are adapted to each harvest. Under vacuum, delicate aromas can be captured far below conventional boiling temperatures.
There is no universal recipe.
The composition
Built in layers.
We build each composition like a fragrance, with top, heart and base notes. Aroma, texture, acidity, bitterness and finish are considered together.
We stop when each plant is at its most expressive—not when a production target has been reached.
One harvest. One composition. One finite release.
INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS
Captured, then measured.
When a composition is complete, a sample of the finished release is sent for independent laboratory analysis.
The results sit alongside our internal harvest records: cultivar, grower, landscape, harvest lot, handling after harvest and sensory character. Together, they form the Plant Passport for that edition.
Every bottle carries that Passport: a record of its plants, provenance and the measured composition of the finished edition.
GROWN FOR [FIRST NAME]
From a particular place. Grown for a particular person.
Once an edition has been composed, independently analysed and allocated, each bottle is finished with its recipient’s name.
That final label connects the person opening it to the plant, landscape and people who made it possible.