If you are making the traditional Elderflower wine, champagne or cordial, there are some essential ingredients for making it at home.
On this page you'll find the ingredients and equipment you'll need to make elderflower drinks, including elderflower wine, elderflower champagne and elderflower cordial.
Elderflower Wine Recipe
Elderflower Champagne Recipe
Elderflowers are usually coming out in May and have an amazing aroma. These aromas work so well in drinks. You can pick the flower heads then follow our simple recipes for make wine and champagne.
You can use them in lots of other drinks too. Elderflower cider is amazing and adding a 25-50g of elderflowers into a summer pale ale can really lift it to another level.
Elderflower is the taste of spring, and when bottled, you can keep that feeling of spring going for months.
Homemade elderflower drinks are so much more tasty than shop bought elder flower drinks, and a lot cheaper too. All you have to do is spend a little time collecting them and removing the flowers from the stems, but that tiny amount of effort is worth it.
If you are not familiar with Elderflowers, then making sure you are picking the right thing is essential. There are some plants that look similar but some of these are poisonous. In fact the Elder tree where the flowers grow is also poisonous so you need to treat the with respect. Watch our video to help you identify the elder tree and it's flowers.
Once you know what you are picking, you'll find making your own Elderflower drinks easy and rewarding.
