Best Hoppy Beer: Afro Caribbean Jungle Paradise

This rich gold, bold IPA will take you deep into the hop jungle with a lemon, grapefruit and melon character and solid malt backbone. Brewed by Afro Caribbean Brewing Company — a small brewpub above Banana Jam Café that brews unique ales with their feet in Africa and their hearts in the Caribbean. This big, bold and dank IPA will take you deep into the hop jungle Appearance: Rich gold Aroma: Citrus and melon Flavour: Big lemon, grapefruit and melon character carried by a solid malt backbone Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with good carbonation.

Best Light Beer: Zwakala Limpopo Lager

This golden beer is crisp and refreshing with a smooth finish from longer ageing.

Best Dark Beer: Cape Brewing Co Doppelbock.

Doppelback is a perfect winter treat. Known as a Munich style dark lager it has a subtle chocolate taste that will leave you savouring each sip.

Best Wheat Beer: Darling Brew Pixie Dust

A seductive smooth weiss with a blend of banana, citrus, clove and floral undertones. A classic weissbier golden in colour with a citrusy hop and mild bitterness. Yeasty smooth mouthfeel and a cloudy, tight foam. The perfect thirst-quencher for the warm Summer months.

Best White Wine: DeMorgenzon Chenin Blanc Reserve 2018

This show stopping white displays effusive aromas of white flower, stone fruit, honey and toast which erupt into opulent flavours of pear, orange blossom, caramel and spice. It’s a world class wine offering that strikes a brilliant balance between lush fruit and crisp, mouth-watering acidity.

Best Red Wine: Tokara Reserve Collection Cabernet Sauvignon 2017

This show stopping white displays effusive aromas of white flower, stone fruit, honey and toast which erupt into opulent flavours of pear, orange blossom, caramel and spice. It’s a world class wine offering that strikes a brilliant balance between lush fruit and crisp, mouth-watering acidity.

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This is a vintage that captures the class and finesse chardonnay is known for in traditional sparkling wines all over the world. Notes of white floral and intricate notes of citrus peel, quince and grapefruit rise to the surface in a fine, vibrant mousse. Pinot Noir adds palate weight to balance the vibrant Chardonnay acidity, complete with a chalky minerality that adds to the length. Pure sophistication.

Distilling Company Unit 43 Gin

Unit 43 is an award-winning craft distillery. ‘Find and Refine’ is the motto of the distillers at Unit 43 Distilling Company. They find the best ingredients and refine them into the quality, award-winning, batch distilled spirits in every bottle of Unit 43. A truly handcrafted gin for the perfectly balanced GnT, Martini or Cocktail.

ClemenGold Gin

ClemenGold Gin is handcrafted according to an age old recipe. A classic, Cape dry style gin —very smooth with subtle hints of citrus, complementing almond and cinnamon. Excellent in a refreshing gin and tonic, as well as in classic gin cocktails, but showing its true colours when served on ice with a twist of orange or a cinnamon stick.

Six Dogs Distillery Pinotage Stained Gin

Six Dogs Pinotage Stained Gin is the love child of Six Dogs Gin and their neighbour’s highly prized block of pinotage grapes in the De Wet Valley.

Roku Japanese Gin

Roku is the premium Japanese craft gin created by the House of Suntory in Osaka, Japan. Crafted by Japanese artisans with meticulous attention to detail, Roku is the perfect balance of flavours. Inside every bottle of Roku are 6 special botanicals sourced in Japan. Each of the Japanese botanicals is harvested in their ideal season and from the best growing areas in Japan to ensure the utmost freshness and flavour. The 6 Japanese botanicals are combined with 8 traditional gin botanicals – juniper berry, coriander seed, angelica root, angelica seed, cardamom seed, cinnamon, bitter orange peel, and lemon peel – for an authentic gin taste. Cherry blossom and green tea provide a floral and sweet aroma. Complex and multi-layered, with the harmonious flavour of various botanicals. Traditional gin taste in the base, plus characteristic Japanese botanical notes with yuzu (Japanese citrus fruit) as the top note. Smooth and silky texture. The crisp Japanese sansho pepper brings a little spiciness to the finish.

Don Papa Small Batch Rum

Don Papa Rum was first created in 2012 and made it to the UK two years later. Distilled in small batches from sugar cane grown on the Philippines island of Negros and aged in American oak for 7 years. This is packed with vanilla flavours and a hint of spice.

De Vry Distillery Die Warm Rasta Rum

De Vry Distillery is an authentic South African distillery producing premium local spirits made from natural, home-grown ingredients. A love for country, a passion for farming and the creative freedom offered by a new generation, inspired the Du Plooy brothers to establish a fine local spirits company.

Floating Dutchman Cape Rum

This original Cape Rum uses the best of the region, they ferment molasses using red wine yeast to promote more fruity esters to complement the strong finish. Floating Dutchman rum is distilled by Frankenstill Distillers in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa. Inspired by our beautiful region and using the best ingredients our country has to offer, to produce a rum that is unique and proudly South African.

Spytail Ginger Spiced Rum

Spytail is a premium spiced rum made in Cognac, France. It is a black rum flavoured with natural ginger, based on a 19th century French tradition. Premium spiced rum made in Cognac, France, aged in French Caribbean rum barrels and subtly flavoured with fresh ginger and spices.

Clase Azul Reposado Tequila

Clase Azul Reposado is an ultra-premium reposado tequila made with Tequilana Weber Blue Agave that is slow-cooked in traditional stone ovens for a minimum of 72 hours. Once the agave reaches a deep, rich flavour, it is fermented with proprietary yeast before distillation. Once the tequila is distilled, it is aged for 8 months in hand-selected bourbon, cognac and sherry oak barrels. This process results in a superb, smooth taste which exceeds expectations with each sip. The bottles are hand made and individually hand-painted by Mazahua natives in Santa Maria Canchesda.

Codigo 1530 Rosa Tequila

Código 1530 Rosa begins with the purity of the distillery’s Blanco, then is rested for a month in uncharred Napa Cabernet French White Oak barrels. The result is a refined spirit with a natural colour as beautiful as its taste. The Rosa has rested just long enough in the fine Cabernet barrels to enrich the natural agave juice, without overpowering its delicate floral notes. Leads with bright agave character and finishes with the soft floral notes of Cabernet.

Fortaleza Tequila Blanco Tequila

Fortaleza Tequila is a small batch, hand-crafted, 100% blue agave tequila from Jalisco, Mexico produced by the fifth generation of Sauza family. It is made at the family’s distillery using the same production methods that were used 150 years ago. The agave used in the making of Fortaleza Tequila is from the heartland of Tequila Valley. They are very sweet and mineral-rich, and are hand picked to ensure optimum maturity and ripeness. The unique, traditional recipe used in production of Fortaleza slow cooks the agave to allow them to release their rich flavours fully. Fortaleza uses bespoke bottles, each individually hand blown in Jalisco, which means each one is different, the same way it was done 150 years ago.

Hope on Hopkins Esperanza Blanco Tequila

Designed to be sipped, this is a floral, smooth agave spirit. After a long fermentation period on site, followed by slow, gentle distillation, we then rest our agave spirit in a stainless steel tank for 30 days to allow the flavours to settle. Designed to be sipped, this is a floral, smooth agave spirit. Alternatively, try it in a “TnT” (or “tequila and tonic”) made by mixing our Esperanza with tonic and a slice of lime.

Best Bourbon: Woodford Reserve Bourbon Whiskey

The art of making fine bourbon first took place on the site of the Woodford Reserve Distillery, a National Historic Landmark, in 1812. The perfectly balanced taste of our Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is comprised of more than 200 detectable flavor notes, from bold grain and wood, to sweet aromatics, spice, and fruit & floral notes.

Best Single Malt: Hakushu 25 Year Old

A very rare and truly fabulous peated Japanese whisky from Hakushu. This 25 year old single malt has picked up oodles of awards over the years, including the much sought-after World’s Best Single Malt title at the World Whiskies Awards in 2018.

Best Rye: 291 Colorado Rye Aspen Stave Finish

Picture the Wild West. Leather, Dirt Roads, Cowboys, Mountains, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and most of all, Whiskey. A mash bill similar to our founders all-time favorite rye whiskeys. With the help of deep charred American white oak barrels and toasted aspen staves to finish, our whiskey is given a distinct Colorado flavor reminiscent of a time long passed. 291 Colorado Rye Whiskey made from rye malt, sour mash, distilled in a copper pot still, aged in American White Oak deep char barrels and finished with toasted Aspen Staves.

Best Blended: Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve

Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve is a luxurious and smooth whisky, with notes of vanilla and dark fruit – a wonderful tribute to the harmonious partnership of Speyside and Highland whiskies, with just a hint of smouldering embers from the West Coast. Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve is made for those unforgettable nights out with amazing friends.

Best Grain: Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky

Released in 2009, this is South Africa’s first ever single grain whisky, coming from the The James Sedgwick Distillery in Wellington. Bain’s Cape Mountain whisky is matured in first fill bourbon casks for an initial three years before spending a further two years in fresh first fill bourbon casks! It’s named after the chap who built the first roads in Wellington.

Best Blended Malt: Nikka Taketsuru 17 Year Old

Another winner from Nikka’s Taketsuru range. This was named for the founder of the company, Masataka Taketsuru and is a big, bold full-bodied vatted whisky of truly exceptional depth, grace and balance.