News Cape gin crowned South Africa’s best! From a cellar perhaps more famous for its wine and brandy, two gin releases bagged gold at the 2025 World Drink Awards.

The 2024 general elections will show to what extent the new provincial leadership can start to turn around the ANC’s fortunes in the Western Cape.

CAPE TOWN - GIN is now the second most popular liquor category in South Africa, having overtaken vodka and now positioning itself firmly on the heels of whisky. This is according to wine and ...

While liquor sales in many countries have been deemed essential during these days of social isolation, South Africa has taken the opposite approach. Now, some of the country’s gin distilleries ...

Indlovu Gin is infused with elephant dung – to flavor the drink with the varied botanicals that make up the elephants’ diet.

The last is that producers of South Africa’s more famous drink, wine, are struggling. A gin distillery can be set up in a warehouse; a vineyard needs sun, water and land. Across the Western Cape ...

South Africa slings back the fynbos-flavoured gin, after seeing 50 per cent increase in consumption.

Last year, gin consumption in South Africa grew by an astonishing 50 percent, to half a pint for every man, woman and child. No wonder that distilleries are mushrooming, trying to give a colonial ...

There are few places more remarkable than South Africa’s Western Cape. If you’ve been to Cape Town, you’ll know. An ocean the color of Bradley Cooper’s eyes, mountains that rival Rio’s ...

It doesn't take much to fill up The Gin Bar in Cape Town. The space is relatively small: A beautiful old courtyard scattered with tables and chairs, hidden behind the storefront of an artisanal ...