Sylva Orchard

A non-alcoholic spirit that's aged in wood, not just flavoured with it. Sylva Orchard is the third release from Sylva Labs' maturation lab in the Colne Valley on the Suffolk border, where founder Ben Branson has developed a distillation and maturation process built around foraged and locally grown cereals and more than 200 tree species.

Fruit, wood, and gentle smoke

Made in small batches from malted barley and British fruit wood — cherry, plum, and apple — Orchard is fruit-led with a soft smokiness underneath, built to mark the end of harvest season. On the nose, ripe cherries, stewed plums, and crisp apple sit alongside toasted malt, biscuit, and vanilla. The palate layers juicy stone fruit over honeyed wood notes, with the cherrywood bringing a light marzipan character, before a long, smooth finish of dark berries and a trace of smoke.