Elderflower Champagne has to be one of the countryside's best kept secrets (although not so secret now thanks to Hugh!).

This is our six bottle Champagne starter kit which will give you everything you need to make 6 bottles of gorgeous Elderflower Champagne from dried Elderflowers. After using the dried ingredients and come May time, all the equipment and chemicals can then be re-used with fresh flowers to make either more champagne or 12 bottles of any country wine.

We include a recipe leaflet for our tried and tested version of Elderflower Champagne and recommend that you re-cycle, beg or borrow used Champagne bottles which is really the only way to store Elderflower Champagne - hence we provide you with 6 stoppers and cages to bottle your finished Champagne in style. A good tip is to ask your local hotels to save bottles from wedding receptions.

Our comprehensive kit includes:

A 5 Gallon scaled Fermentation Bucket and Lid

2 x 1 Gallon PET Demijohns with grommet caps

A Syphon pack to syphon your champagne into bottles

A 16 inch paddle to stir up your mixture during initial fermentation

2 x bubblers to exclude air during fermentation (1 for fermenting and a spare in case you decide to do 2 gallons!)

50 grams of dried Elderflowers - sufficient for 2 Gallons (12 bottles) of Champagne

a tub of Citric acid

A tub of Pectolase (for maximum flavour and juice extraction and to aide clearing)

a tub of Tannin - to add the dry taste to Champagne

100 Vitamin B1 tablets - to provide nutrient to your Champagne yeast

2 x muslin bags to strain the flowers from the juice prior to secondary fermentation

A hydrometer to indicate when to bottle your Champagne

A sachet of Champagne yeast sufficient for 5 gallons

6 x Champagne corks

6 x Champagne cages

A tub of the all important steriliser to clean your bottles and equipment

Our recipe leaflet with complete instructions to make Champagne from fresh or dried flowers.