Free,freer, free state
Cosmos and khaki bush”, the way Gerrit du Plooy says it, makes it sound like he is talking about a saucy radio story or a steamy novel. But this morning, in the old milking shed on Oppermanshoogte, his mother-in-law’s maize farm between Oranjeville and Deneysville near the Vaal Dam, he’s actually singing the praises of two of the more unconventional botanical ingredients in the “pure Free State” gin he and his two younger brothers are distilling and selling under the De Vry brand.
