Starbucks South Africa is excited to reintroduce the Starbucks Cold Brew range that features the Traditional Cold Brew, Cold Brew Latte, and Cold Brew with Vanilla Sweet Cream. Cold brew vs iced coffee Cold brew differs from iced espresso beverages like an iced latte...
Know your sparkling wine
Prosecco and champagne are popular sparkling wines that have more similarities than differences. While both styles of sparkling wine can produce rosé sparkling wines, Prosecco rosé was only approved in May 2020. Prosecco and champagne are both made from still wine...
De Krans P&T is this summer’s pre-mix
De Krans P&T is South Africa's first and only port-style wine and tonic. If you find gin and tonic too bitter to your taste, you will love this drink. Port-style wines are part of De Krans Wines' heritage, and the winery has become one of South Africa's most...
How people around the world drink Rooibos
According to the SA Rooibos Council (SARC), more people are trying Rooibos than ever before, but each country has its own way of drinking it. According to Adele du Toit, SARC spokesperson, tea-drinking traditions have been incorporated into cultures around the world...
Something fresh at Starbucks
As summer draws to an end, Starbucks is rolling out fresh food nationwide with a delicious new menu of freshly prepared and ready-to-go snacks and treats. They invited me to try some of it. Some of their new offerings include the granola pot, a breakfast favourite...
Cheers to Gin and Tonic Day
Every year on 19 October the world celebrates Gin and Tonic Day. And if you know me at all, you know it's a celebration I fully support. According to lore, this modest drink was invented as a tactic to get British soldiers and other officials to take their quinine, a...
Win with NESCAFÉ GOLD
NESCAFÉ GOLD provides coffee fans with a chance to win one-of-a-kind luxurious prizes as part of their Crafted Beyond Compare Winter 2021 campaign. Each month until August you can win the bespoke Xesha timepiece and/or the specially created Nungu Diamonds jewellery....
Rooibos tea and its role in fiction
Rooibos is my favourite hot beverage, and occasionally, cold beverage. It’s been months since I’ve cut out caffeine and I really feel great. Part of it is because of the way my body responds to caffeine – I wrote about it here. I know a lot of people, both my and...
Garnish your G&T with the unusual
This International Gin and Tonic Day garnish your classic cocktail with cucumber. Gloriously unusual, Hendrick’s Gin suggests you try something equally unusual. The humble cucumber brings out the curious flavours of Hendrick’s Gin, with its infusions of English...
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