Award-winning florist launches floral gin

From Flower to Flavour: Glossop creative studio translates floral design into 'The Florist' gin.

Norris Master Florists is a Glossop-based design studio known for its immersive floral installations and botanical work. On Thursday 26th March, it launches its first product - ‘The Florist’, a small-batch gin that translates its creative practice into flavour. 

Founded by Master Florist Anja Norris, the studio has built a reputation for design-led work spanning retail, events and large-scale installations, as well as creative projects across fashion, television and brand collaborations. With The Florist, that same approach to composition, materiality and storytelling has been reimagined in a new medium. 

Anja explains, “For us, floral design is about storytelling - layering texture, colour and form to create something new. It’s rooted in craftsmanship and emotion, drawing on nature’s shapes, structures and space. Because we work with these elements every day, exploring them in another form felt like a natural progression.” 

Rather than beginning with a traditional drinks brief, The Florist was shaped by the materials that define the studio’s work. Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla), bramble (Rubus fruticosus) and heather (Calluna vulgaris) were selected not only for their flavour, but for their role within Norris’ floral compositions. 

Chamomile appears almost weekly in the studio’s bouquets, valued for its softness and scent, while the wild, arching lines of bramble are often used to translate landscape into sculptural forms. Heather reflects the wider environments that inform the studio’s work across the North West. 

Bramble, in particular, has long featured in Norris’ installations, including a RHS Chelsea Flower Show piece where more than a mile of thorny vine was woven into a three-metre botanical structure - exploring the tension between wild growth and controlled design. 

These same materials now find expression in The Florist, resulting in a gin that is delicate, layered and quietly expressive - approached more as a composition than a conventional recipe. 

From the Moors to Manchester, The Florist offers the palate a light, floral and gently hedgerow-led flavour with a soft, rounded finish. 

Produced for Norris Floristry and distilled by Stockport Gin, the first run has been intentionally limited, yielding just over eighty bottles. 

Designed for simple serves, The Florist pairs with premium tonic and a slice of fresh apple, or with lightly crushed blackberries to echo its hedgerow origins. 

The Florist will initially be distributed through The Bottle Store in Glossop from 26th March 2026, with plans to expand into select on-trade and independent retail partners across Manchester and the wider North West.