Remember when it was the done thing to serve towering chopped salads crammed with prawns and avocado? When cheese and pineapple on sticks was really rather fancy? When dessert was a neon-coloured blancmange?

Thankfully those days are gone – but the food world still has its fashions.

Perhaps the most key flavour and ingredient to have created a buzz in the last five years is caramel – more to the point, salted caramel.

The phenomenon has its roots in Brittany, where buttered, salted caramels, spiked with fleur de Guerande, have been adored for generations.

We don’t see this trend waning any time soon – it’s much too delicious.

One local business that’s recently hopped onto the caramel train is Wild Knight, which will launch a decadent new premium vodka, Nelson’s Gold, at The Maid’s Head in Norwich on Monday, March 20.

Boasting truly local ingredients, and a rather brilliant back story, the spirit is the brainchild of Matt and Steph Brown, who’ve caused quite a stir on the scene already with their original Wild Knight Vodka.

Made in small batches using Norfolk-grown barley, it’s become a mixer of choice in top bars and restaurants across the county.

Nelson’s Gold takes the smooth, eminently sippable qualities of the original vodka up a notch with the addition of caramelised Norfolk sugar beet, for a flavour that Steph says is incomparable to the many other caramel vodkas on the market.

Read more at source: Eastern Daily Press