How to host a midwinter feast at Hepple Estate? Just add gin

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Footsteps from the freezing cold top of a Northumberland hillside, a small, tin-roofed “lunch hut” is glowing. It’s late in the afternoon, an hour when the plain wooden shelter for grouse shooters is usually empty and dark. But on this late November day, it is hosting a rousing, improbable feast to mark the border crossing into winter. 

The hut lies within