South Africa
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Pinotage
The grape South Africa invented: Pinotage — a 1925 cross of Pinot Noir and Cinsaut (by Professor Perold at Stellenbosch), making the Cape's signature reds: coffee, plum, bramble and smoke — from rustic to world-class (Ka…
Amarula
The marula cream: Amarula — a cream liqueur from the marula fruit (Sclerocarya birrea, the elephants' favourite), fermented, distilled, aged two years in oak and blended with cream in Phalaborwa, Limpopo — one of the wor…
Witblits and Cape Brandy
The white lightning of the Cape: witblits — unaged grape brandy ('white lightning'), the farm-distilled fire of the Western Cape, sibling to the barrel-aged brandies (KWV's are world-class) and mampoer's peachy northern…
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