{"id":16386,"date":"2021-10-29T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/?p=16386"},"modified":"2024-05-28T11:45:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T09:45:32","slug":"fearless-flavourful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getitmagazine.co.za\/ballito-umhlanga\/blog\/2021\/10\/29\/fearless-flavourful\/","title":{"rendered":"Fearless & flavourful…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the beautifully simplistic and elegant white bottle with cork lid that first drew us to Karoa Cara White gin, but the wonderful flavour and passion of the Ballito founders kept us captivated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThis is unlike any other gin you\u2019ve ever tasted. Not only does it have the wonderfully unique flavour combination of spearmint and cardamom, but it\u2019s also South Africa\u2019s only cloudy gin on the market.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe like to think of ourselves as trend-makers rather than trend followers,\u201d says Mtunzini-based co-founder Janie Barnes. \u201cMy husband and I both have rebellious spirits. We like to go against the grain and do things differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally a farm girl and horse trainer from Namibia, Janie, with her husband Elwin, first started toying with the idea of distilling about five years ago. Elwin is an engineer and the couple moved to Mtunzini in Zululand from Gauteng 11 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched a documentary about distilling and thought it would be a good business idea,\u201d she says. \u201cWe bought a small, 5-litre still (that was full of leaks and hardly worked) and starting experimenting. We never made it to drink ourselves, this was always going to be a business.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Karoa Cara co-founders Elwin and Janie Barnes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now the couple, along with their business partners and close friends Sonnia and Harold Kruijer, have a fully-fledged, Ballito-based distillery where they make the country\u2019s only cloudy gin.<\/p>\n

A true labour of love, Janie (who owns her own beauty salon in Mtunzini) says it took over two years to get this product on the shelves. There was lots of blood, sweat and tears as well as waiting for licenses and legalities and, of course, hundreds upon hundreds of hours spent perfecting the flavours. \u201cWhen we started, the gin craze had just taken off and everyone was using florals and citrus flavours. In true \u2018us\u2019 style, we decided to do something completely different. Elwin had actually experimented with spearmint while he was doing his distilling course and the instructors told him not to do it, as it\u2019s a very difficult flavour profile to balance. Of course, that made us want to do it even more,\u201d she laughs.<\/p>\n

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Balancing the botanicals in a gin is a very precise and calculated process and, because they wanted the spearmint and cardamom to be the dominant flavour profile, theirs is a contemporary rather than a traditional London Dry gin.<\/p>\n

All the botanicals in the gin are grown on an organic farm in the Cape. It has grapefruit, lime and lemon peel, as well as juniper, coriander, calamus root, cardamom and, of course, fresh spearmint leaves.<\/p>\n

Text:<\/strong> Leah Shone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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