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Introducing Naked Eve
Introducing Naked Eve; Exclusive to The Star, one of The Polizzi Collection hotels The Star becomes the first hotel in England to serve botanical infusion drink Wild Eve Recipe No.1 Award-winning Apothecary and herbalist, Amanda Saurin, is excited to announce her newly launched ‘magic in a bottle’ Wild Eve Recipe No. 1 is now served at The Star in Alfriston, at the foot of the South Downs, and will soon be available throughout the entire Polizzi Collection. Incomparable to anything else on the market, Wild Eve is well thought out, rich and as intense as an alcoholic drink. It has heat, length, and real complexity with that moreish desire to keep on sipping. This innovative, small-batch non-alcoholic drink is handcrafted from an exclusive selection of organic flowers, fruits, leaves and seaweeds, hand foraged on the Isle of Harris, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. With the most extraordinary set of plants at the team’s disposal from the mountain, machair meadow and sea, Amanda has used her learning from years of thinking, testing and coming to understand the best ways of extracting flavour. It draws on decades of acquiring plant knowledge, understanding plant medicine and a theory that plants, like essential oils for perfumery, can be categorised into top, middle and base notes to construct something really exciting. The Star, named the best hotel in the South East by The Sunday Times. underwent an extensive renovation with mother and daughter duo Olga and Alex Polizzi at the helm. The Star is a striking Grade II Listed 16th-century building in the medieval village of Alfriston, that reopened in June 2021 after an extensive renovation, The 30 bedrooms have been designed in Olga Polizzi’s style, using contemporary furniture and local antiques, English wallpapers and fabrics by Richard Smith, with splashes of vibrant colours and textures. The restaurant, with its own inner courtyard for warm weather dining, serves simple, unfussy dishes with a focus on clarity of flavour, and the ever-changing seasonal menus utilise the abundance of exceptional Sussex produce. Alex Polizzi shall be taking Wild Eve Recipe No. 1 to the two other hotels in The Polizzi Collection, Hotel Endsleigh and Hotel Tresanton, soon where the Naked Eve will also be served. Available Now £8 See the Wild Eve website Wild Eve Harris (wild-eve.com) The Star Hotel: The Polizzi Collection
