{"id":8020,"date":"2021-07-30T11:08:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/durban\/?p=8020"},"modified":"2021-08-19T21:42:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T21:42:27","slug":"flowstone-gin-a-beautiful-place-of-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/durban\/flowstone-gin-a-beautiful-place-of-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowstone Gin: A beautiful Place of Origin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Africa is the birthplace of humankind, with hominids \u2013 the ancestor of the modern human \u2013 first emerging on the continent about seven million years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Cradle of Human Kind, a world heritage site, is where some of the earliest and most important fossils have been found on the continent; including the ground-breaking fossils of Mrs Ples, an Australopithecus Africanus, another early ancestor of the modern human.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many evolutionary firsts also happened in this region, including the use of stone tools around 2.6 million years ago, and our ancestor\u2019s ability to use and control fire, just over a million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Flowstone range of gins is also fortunate to call the Cradle of Human Kind its birthplace too.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In fact, the name Flowstone is derived from the flowing rock formations that define the area. Flowstone\u2019s distillery is based on a farm in the heart of the Cradle, and is inspired by the stunning botanical diversity on the internationally proclaimed World Heritage Site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further making the range of gins unique are the regions singular flora: the bankenveld botanicals are the very heart and soul of the delicious and award-winning flavours in these acclaimed gins. Crafted to capture the essence of the African Wilderness by drawing from the rich palette of indigenous bushveld botanicals; in fact, it was whilst experimenting with the Wild Cucumber as a garnish in a sundowner G&amp;T that inspired the birth of Flowstone Gin.<\/p>\n<p>The gins now have the prestigious title of most awarded gin range in South Africa \u00a0and the first gin range ever to hold three double-gold medals from the Michelangelo awards in the same year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can buy the Flowstone range of gin online at <a href=\"https:\/\/flowstone.co.za\/\">https:\/\/flowstone.co.za\/<\/a> as well as Makro and Takealot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-92191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.food-blog.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/224083705_1271129353338545_340103398853465308_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"825\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa is the birthplace of humankind, with hominids \u2013 the ancestor of the modern human \u2013 first emerging on the continent about seven million years ago. 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