Taste the spirit of adventure with new non-alcoholic drink

A horrible ‘mocktail’ planted the seeds of what was to become a booming business — distilling the first decent non-alcoholic spirit, writes Esther N McCarthy.

It’s a gloriously warm, bright, breezy day at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and I’m standing at the Seedlip pea garden. I’m watching Ben Branson chatting spiritedly to a large group of UK journalists.