The Season

The Spanish seasonal calendar runs through stone fruit and berries — peach, apricot, raspberry, strawberry, blackberry, mulberry, fig, plum, cherry — depending on the harvest week. The Season takes whatever fruit is at peak ripeness on the day of production and freeze-dries it. The C6 esters, lactones and anthocyanins that carry stone-fruit and berry character all survive vacuum sublimation intact while the water sublimes; the colour is striking, almost saturated to the point of artifice but biologically faithful. Each batch carries the signature of its harvest week: peach-and-apricot in early summer, raspberry through mid-summer, blackberry and mulberry late summer, fig and plum into autumn, cherry in spring.