Our Story
We grow blackcurrants for flavour.
The same approach carries through everything we make.
The Fruit
At Pixley Berries, everything begins with blackcurrants grown for flavour.
We grow our own blackcurrants in the Herefordshire countryside and make cordials and juices that capture them at their best, including out blackcurrant and blackcurrant & raspberry cordials. Alongside these, we also product apple juice, applying the same focus on balance and flavour.
Our approach is straightforward, plenty of fruit balanced with sugar and water. Nothing unnecessary, nothing added for the sake of it.
The Approach
We focus on doing a few things properly.
That means growing blackcurrants in the right place, harvesting at the right time and making products that reflect the character of the crop rather than trying to standardise it away. Each season has its own variation and we see that as part of the process rather than something to correct.
The same approach carries through to everything we make, including our apple juice, with the same focus on balance, flavour and simplicity.
We're not interested in overcomplicating things or following trends. The aim is to produce something honest, balanced and consistently enjoyable to drink.
The Farm
The farm sits at the centre of everything we do.
Our blackcurrants are grown across carefully selected sites in Herefordshire, chosen for soil, aspect and their surrounding environment. The deep silty clay loams of the old hop-growing areas provide the moisture and nutrients our crops rely on, particularly through drier summers.
Around the fields, we maintain hedgerows, woodland and uncultivated headlands. Nettles and wild plants are left to grow, supporting butterflies, moths and other insects that form part of the wider ecosystem.
We also manage areas of ancient woodland, old orchards and coppices, alongside long-established hedgerows of oak, ash, thorn, cherry, field maple, willow and alder. It's a working landscape, but one we aim to look after properly.
