Christopher’s Blackcurrant & Blueberry Cordial

With all its fragrant extravagance, blackcurrant, appropriately, is the virtuoso here – elegant, lovely and luscious, but the blueberry adds its own subtle Stradivarian string. ‘It’s like a super-posh Ribena,’ our friends have said, a little too infectiously. It is, we are happy to suppose, but a super-posh Ribena with depth, erudition and suavity – a Ribena with a wet-suit under its dinner-jacket, a Ribena that will wait until it has mastered conversational Russian before reading War & Peace.