Winemaker

Glyn French

Discipline: Winemaker
Venue: Flowstone Distillery (Craft Gin) · Distillery

Portrait of Glyn French

i. Biography

His work sits at the intersection of gin, Mogale City, and a South African distilling category that is still being defined by both new makers and established names. Glyn French has built a practice grounded in place, while staying alert to the way the conversation around South African gin continues to shift.

The Path

Today, Glyn French is founder of Flowstone Gins. The role carries both authorship and responsibility: a venture named with an ear for texture, and a professional practice built around shaping spirit from the ground up. His path places him inside the expanding language of South African gin, where identity, provenance, and craft are continually being worked through.

The Work Today

At Flowstone Distillery in Mogale City, Glyn French works as Master Distiller for Flowstone. The title places him at the center of the process, where technical control meets the more expressive demands of distilling. In that setting, his work belongs to the daily discipline of making gin, and to the larger task of defining what South African gin can look like, smell like, and stand for.

Career - Founder — Flowstone Gins, Mogale City, South Africa

Signature

Glyn's signature wines include Wild Cucumber Gin, Bushwillow Gin, Snuffbox Gin, and Gin Char. Together, these names sketch a portfolio with a distinct personality, each one carrying its own mood and cadence. Even on the page, they suggest a distiller interested in character and individuality—bottles that read less like variants on a theme than like separate expressions within the same creative vocabulary.

In Their Words “The gin revolution in South Africa was to a large extent pioneered by women. What is really gratifying is seeing talented young black women distillers making their mark and creating exciting brand identities.”

Acclaim

French frames South African gin as a category shaped by who has already done the work and by who is entering it now. In his view, the field has been built in large part by women, and it is now being extended by talented young black women distillers making their mark and creating exciting brand identities. That perspective places the category in motion rather than at rest. The revolution he describes is not treated as a finished moment, but as an ongoing development in which established names and emerging distillers occupy the same space. French stands inside that wider movement with a clear sense of lineage and an eye on what is still being made.

FAQ How did Glyn French get started? His stated career arc begins as founder of Flowstone Gins in Mogale City, South Africa. What is Glyn French's craft? Master Distiller — Flowstone (Cradle of Humankind / Magaliesberg area).