Jo Hilditch British Cassis is an award winning alcholic mixer drink made with blackcurrants from our beautiful Herefordshire/Welsh Borders. Our Cassis (13%) can be used in all seasons for numerous cocktails and delicious recipes. She has now also added a British Framboise to her range. For full details of prices, please click on this link.
Jo's Cassis is packaged in a sleek slimline bottle which can be despatched in a gift box as a single item, or which looks stunning on the shelf of any deli. Point of sale material can include our mini recipe leaflet.
Jo Hilditch took over the family farm 15 years ago and set about diversifying an already enterprising farm business. The family have been carefully growing blackcurrants on the south facing slopes of their Herefordshire farm for three generations. Most of the crop has traditionally been sold to Ribena, but now with some of the excess crop Jo decided to take on the French at their own game!
This is not a traditional Cassis, not as sweet, and Jo feels not as cloying. But it is really blackcurranty with each bottle containing over 95% pure blackcurrant, the rest being British sugar to taste. Jo’s hard work has paid off – her Cassis has won a gold star in the Great Taste Awards 2007; and was short-listed for the Telegraph/Sainsbury’s Taste of Britain Award 2007.
During 2008 she has won 2 Gold Stars at the Great Taste awards, was Highly Commended in the Quality Drinks Awards and was a Finalist in the Made In Britain/Waitrose awards sponsored by Country Living.
Jo says, “To have achieved all these accolades is really helping our sales, and to be a recognised brand known for our quality and flavour is a great honour. Only 220 out of 4800 products achieved 2 stars in these most recent Great Taste Awards, so I think that makes us pretty special".
“We have also recently launched a new 100ml bottle, which is a miniature version of the classic British Cassis bottle but is the perfect size for a present. Or for anyone ahead of the game – a perfect size for a stocking filler!”
Other products include British Cassis with Gin; and most recently our Jo Hilditch British Framboise which is available in both 375ml and 100ml.