The story of Day Trip begins with the Mattituck Lions Strawberry Festival - a North Fork local carnival devoted to all things strawberry. One year, some 2 tons of strawberries were somehow leftover and, it seemed, destined for the compost pile. Luckily the strawberries were rescued and made into strawberry wine, which was later distilled into a strawberry eau de vie and added it back into the wine with a whole mess of vibrant botanicals. Nettle, quassia, jasmine, rose, nutmeg fruit… leaving that to macerate for a few months before filtering, sweetening and bottling.
