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Champagne Importer: Champagne Master (Certified)🥇🥇🥇 Wine Glassware Designer: Liquor Industry Expert: Art Lover: Best Luxury Wine Merchant in Africa 2021
Johannesburg, South Africa
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The Tasting Cellar Club is a private members club, with access to over 1000 whisk(e)y, wine, cognac, champagne and brandy bottles and a range of private tastings on offer.
You do not need to pay to be a member.
Please register here:
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Took me 6 months to perfect this. I hope you guys love it.
100% black owned Luxury Glassware Collection.
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This how we do it in Limpopo. Build decent homes in the village.
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Gogo Esther Mahlangu will unveil the 'Mahlangu' Rolls-Royce Phantom at The Melrose Gallery at One&Only Cape Town. She is the first South African artist to have been commissioned to create a painting for the 'Gallery' inside a new Phantom.
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This was 14 years ago.. when I took Veuve Clicquot to the people. Today it's the number 1 selling champagne in SA.
This was in Mamelodi, Pretoria.
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6 years ago we launched Veuve Clicquot Rich with my my friend Xolani in South Africa. Today it's the number one selling champagne here.
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Last night, I unexpectedly bumped into my daughter at groove. One of us had to leave, the kid left .
It's officiall now, I'm retiring from the night-time lifestyle fun.
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From my glassware collection 😁. I own the brand, called Château Crystal
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We finally have a buyer of our R800 000 bottle after listing it on Auction two months ago. We negotiated down to R675,000.00.
My Client bought it for R300k in 2013
@Makro_SA
Centurion.
The private buyer is from the Western Cape. 😍🤑
Not too bad.
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This is an empty hospital in Hillbrow Johannesburg, it has been empty for over 20 years. I think government should turn it into a Coronavirus hospital. Very big hospital.
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I'm willing to take in 15 unemployed female graduates in June, train them, help them get necessary documents and introduce them to my contacts in China, so that they can package and distribute Rooibos tea there. China consumes 720 million kg of tea a year.
Economic Freedom.
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The city has given me permission to build a produly South African liquor Wholesaler in Rosebank I will be selling ONLY South African alcohol brands, more emphasis will be on Black owned liquor Brands. I won't charge them a cent for Shelf Space.
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Gogo Esther Mahlangu solo exhibition 'Timeless' beautifully presented at Oliewenhuis Art Museum in Bloemfontein.
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Myself and the owner of a Tops Spar in Johannesburg, have decided to create a shelve space for black owned alcohol beverages brands, who are struggling to list their products in the primary retail market.
Requirements
1. Your brand must be registered with the department of
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People are drinking Veuve Clicquot Rich incorrectly.This is a champagne made specifically for mixology & not to be drunk as is. It belongs to the "doux" category,with a dosage of 60 grams of sugar per litter, translated to 15 teaspoons of sugar in a liter. You need to add ice.
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Shebeens in the 70s look at the lady having some sparking wine in a Coupe glass, you will also notice that everyone has bathed. 😉
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Tomorrow I'm going to give u a list of 20 elegant South African red wines under R200 to enjoy this winter.
20 wines for R4000 to enjoy during the 2023 winter season.
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I have kept thee message since 2014. I apologized to the gentleman and stopped dating his wife.
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AKA is the only artists in South Africa to sell over 1 million bottles of Vodka and help Cruz Vodka maintain double-digit revenue and volume growth in 2017, making Cruz Vodka to be in the top 3 best selling Vodka brands in South Africa.
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I found my daughter sitting with two girls and 3 boys. So one of the guys was her man. I just pulled the chair and set next to her. She was not impressed with me at all and they left me with the bill.
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On March 2 2016, I had dinner with The President of Veuve Clicquot here in Johannesburg. During dinner, he asked me a question " what do you think of Veuve Rich?" , it's not doing well and we are thinking of discontinuing it in South Africa", he said.
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In just less than 48 hours of opening alcohol sales, I will be able to pay salaries, warehouse rent, tax and other debts, thanks to the many sales we have made, after almost 5 weeks of zero sales. The support is amazing.
Thank you for the love ❤❤❤
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I'm an EFF member, but worked at an ANC event for 3 days. The love, respect and support I got from my sister and brothers from the ANC was amazing.
Next stop is the DA's event.
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It took me 4 years of planning, R1,2 million of my savings & lots of sacrifices to come up with this glassware brand. Now, I'm ready to hit the ground running.
100% South African owned brand.
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Now, it turns out she is a very wealthy business woman.
To cut the long story short, she has now officially appointed me as her Sparkling Wine supplier for her home & coporate dinners.
I'm starting work tomorrow.
Moral of the story... always be humble.
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Corona has launched cans, available in South Africa already.
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Last year, I wrote something here about why JAY-Z bought champagne Armand de Brignac, I was ridiculed & labeled a liar by some.
On Wednesday an executive from the brand, send me a message, requesting a 'dinner meeting' with me when he visit SA soon.
Interesting 🤫🤭
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Ladies and Gentlemen. I'm done with packaging for my glassware collection.
I hope you like it.
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In 2019, I received a DM from a gentleman from Namibia 🇳🇦. He asked me to help them start an MCC brand.
To cut the long story short.
Today, The first black owned Cap Classique brand, outside of South Africa is being launched in Namibia 🇳🇦. And the first in Africa.
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Not true, the one written 250 on the neck is the normal one you can buy at supermarkets, Liqour stores and restaurants, so on and the other one is for the travel retail ( what people call duty free).
This is not fake.
Remember this, Alcohol Labelling differs by country based
Fake alcohol is on its highest level ever in SA, even your trusted retailers are now sourcing fake products for profit.
Capitalism will chose profit over ethics
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It is written on Red Bull cans: don't mix with alcohol.
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I received a call from someone who thinks they might have drunk a fake Hennessy VS because they got very sick after consumption.
This is how to spot a fake Hennessy
Below the label of the original Hennessy bottle is a “1765” engraving that is visible & can be felt by touch.
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Jay-Z, bought Armand de Brignac champagne brand from Sovereign Brands in 2006 because Moët refused to make Beyonce their brand ambassador. Today the brand is worth $300 million.
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R178 billion, that's what Europeans make out of South Africa on alcohol sales. The South African wine industry makes below R20 billion or so. Gate keeping in this industry is painful.
Yes. I said it. Savanna is European owned.
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All South African produced Liquor products MUST have a barcode at the back label starting with the number 600……. If it doesn’t start with this number, you must know there is something wrong.
Don’t buy it.
Enjoy Responsibly ❤️🙏
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Today we received confirmation that our bottle is valued at R800,000.00 to R900,000.00. We bought it at Makro in 2013 for R300,000.00
Please note the bottle is kept far away from me. 😅 in a highly secured place some in South Africa.
We are selling it on auction in London
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We have start. This Gin is owned by a young black brother.
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We taking over a Tarven in Tembisa. I'm going to turn it into a Wine tarven and make available over 300 wines priced at less than R100.
The first of its kind.
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This old man from the ANC was arrested by the Hawks today, for irregular awarding a tender for farming development to his wife. He is from my home municipality in Limpopo called Molemole municipality.
That land was supposed to benefit the community.
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In December 2022, I met a British Old Lady in a Liquor Store in Melrose Johannesburg & I could see she was struggling to choose a South African Sparkling Wine for her dinner party that evening. I didn't know who she was and she she didn't know I was a Champagne Master.....
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As promised here are my recommendations!
30 wines you can buy for R4000 for Winter 2023 at your nearest Bottle store.
Please don't store in the kitchen 😉 and keep them for longer.
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Did you know that Brutal Fruit is infact a beer and not a 'fruit drink'? The Western Cape High Court has ordered SABMiller to change the labeling, today.
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My alcohol import business and career was 100% funded by a Family from Portugal, after the South African government lending institutions refused to assist me.
I received and continued receiving mentorship in France, nothing here, absolutely nothing.
You need connections here.
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She is giving me all her Tops Spars to list black owned alcohol brands.
Thank you my friend.
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It is a label owner's wish to have their wine listed at a Presidential gala dinner.
Apart from being owned by a young black woman, by merit it deserves to be listed there.
Fantastic wine it is.
My wish is, for it to be made the official sparking for the coming 5 years.
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Another investment Champagne.. if you have this, we can help sell on auction.
Dom Pérignon keep a small number of bottles of Plénitude 2 in the cellars for release at a later date.
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How I review
@bonang_m
's MCC.
Light/ unusual salmon pink. Fine bubbles, strawberry nose, yeasty character. Palate soft and smooth with good berry fruit & great acidic balance.
I give it 🏅🏅🏅 🏅stars.
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I’m at this place in Soweto called Njalos. This guys are probably making R1 million plus a night.
My first time here, and very impressed.
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In 2022, we are opening a boutique butchery and we will be selling Wagyu beef only, which we will pair the luxury South African Wines on our portfolio.
This Wagyu ribeye steak will cost you around R5 842,29.
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New gold mine discovered not far from my village in Limpopo and the mine is 100% South African and black owned.
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Rakgadi didn't die because of COVID-19, I rejected the death certificate and asked them to do a proper postmortem. She was bloody old for fuck sakes, why does government certifi any death as COVID-19 related death.
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Meet Veuve Clicquot Winemaker Gaëlle Goossens, the lady responsible for making Veuve Clicquot Rich.
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Must we do a champagne picnic on the Riviera in the vaal, for only 50 people?
No under 25 year olds.🤭🤫
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This is what I warned the President will happen.
Police arrest a 50-year old suspect in Durban for manufacturing and selling Fake Smirnoff 1818.
This has a potential of killing thousands more than COVID-19 can within hours.
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I make R10k profit on a Savanna pallet, it last 3 days in Townships. That's how profitable selling Savanna is.
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Minister Dlamini Zuma filed an affidavit with the North Gauteng High Court today, opposing the lifting of the Alcohol sale ban. 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Back to square one 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Did you know that Midrand & Kayalami was a Smallholder farming area occupied by natives from mainly Limpopo and the Eastern Cape, who farmed peaches and forcefully moved to Tembisa in 1957 by the Apartheid government to make way for whites?
They used to call it diperekising😉
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Ice Tropez is not a cider but a wine based cocktail.
Ice Tropez is made with:
1. Rosé wine
2. Peach extract
3. Soda water
4. And some Fleur de Brugnon;( a kind of nectarine).
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In 2014... I met with a representative from Vinimark, the company that imported Champagne Armand de Brignac into South Africa ..
The champagne was not well known then... I advised that we push it in nightclubs and as they say... the rest is history. 😉
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According to the liquor act norms and standards, section 4.7, licensed restaurants must give customers free water. Never buy water at restaurants, if they sell you alcohol.
If they refuse, you can report them to your provincial Liquor Authority.
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Our Champagne is now dispalyed at
@Makro_SA
woodmead. It is however exclusively available online at Makro. One bottle is R4999 and the Methuselah is R132 0000. 🍾🍾🍾🍾
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Please don't store sparkling wines, (MCC, Champagne, Spumante,Cava,prosecco, Sekt and so forth) in the kitchen and or dinning room.
If you don't have a cellar, store them in your wardrobe closet.
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Designed this champagne glass and send it to France for a technical drawing, then to Czech Republic for them to be made.
They were mouth blown by a skilled Glass Blower, a rare skill.
Covid19 happened and the project collapsed... but we are back now.
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This is my force. She owns a couple of Spar Tops . She is the first person to list our brand. Love her to bits.
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This is one reason brand owners are reluctant to send stock to South Africa.
Pure disrespect to men & women who worked for more than 10 years to produce such a prestigious Champagne.
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Let me tell you about Veuve Clicquot Rich.
Rich assemblage is composed of Pinot Noir (45%), Meunier (40%) & Chardonnay (15%).
It's a champagne for mixology & especially produced for cocktails, not neat drinking.
With a high dosage of 60 g/l, ( 6 table spoon of sugar.)..
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In 2019, Distell's revenue increased 8% to R26.2billion boosted by its premium white spirits, which include Cruz Vodka, that maintained double-digit revenue and volume growth. Cruz Vodka is a leading brand in one of the fastest growing spirits categories in the rest of Africa.
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Finally, Champagne has decided to honour me. They will be honouring my work in champagne wines.
I think the 5th black person in the world.
Was told today.
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Marataba Mountain Lodge, is 54 kilometers away from the farm in the Waterberg Mountains, Waterberg Region Limpopo 🇿🇦🇿🇦, sharing space with Elephants, Giraffes, Rhinos , Lions and many more. Peaceful 👌
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I said this without first hand information a couple days ago and I was ridiculed and called all sorts of names on twitter..
To the Queen 🍾🍾🍾🍾👊❤
Well done
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Did you know!
The term whiskey on the rocks, literally means whiskey on the rocks, and not ice, as it were.
Back in the 20th century, scots were using cold river stones to cool down their whiskey as well as to keep it at a perfect tasting temperature.
The perfect way to
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I have good news for young people, especially previously disadvantaged individuals, who want to go into wine farming.
There are funds available to help you start a wine farm, donated by European Union.
Will share details later in the week.
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Coca-Cola is planning to sell a stake in its South African bottling unit to local non-White investors in a deal worth about R10 billion.
Rothschild & Co is an adviser on the deal.
Nice deal to have, but we already know who will get it, unfortunately 😫
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This is my story in short... cashed out my pension, sold everything and went and studied Champagne & Wine with an institution in France. Wanted to learn and Educate myself in the business. Today, I'm a certified importer and distributor of fine bubbles.
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A bottle of Champagne should be chilled (but never in the refrigerator)
The ideal serving temperature is between 6°C and 9°C, giving a drinking temperature of 8°C-13°C once the wine has warmed up in the glass, the only way to achieve that is by using an ice bucket.
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Caught this guy trying to break into my apartment. Unlucky for him he found me ready.
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This gentleman, came to South Africa and requested to have dinner with me. I didn't know who he was, until he introduced himself, in a letter, not an email, asking to have dinner with me.
His name is Jean-Marc Gallot, Veuve Clicquot President and CEO
It hardly happens
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Corruption is endemic in the retail sector in South Africa. Retailers are paid millions not to list products from black owned companies.
Evemn some popular outlets in the townships, dont have a BNG, Sewela wines and other thousands black owned brands listed.
Why?
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Found the buyer of my stolen phone. Information gone but I found my phone.
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Cognac is produced from distilled white wine. So, there is absolutely no need to mix it with sugary drinks.
Two blocks of Ice and a bit of water is all you need.
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Limpopo is recognised by SA’s Wine & Spirit Board as being part of SA Wine Regions.
Meaning we can farm and grow grapes to make wine in Limpopo.
I hope the Limpopo government is aware of this.
This can create over 300 000 jobs and increase tourism in the province
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A Prestige Reserve is a finest wine that is made from the finest grapes from best vineyards. It is a premium Vintage wine,the quality of the wine is unmatched, built on a profound depth of reserve vintages.
This is a luxurious Product. 👌👌👌
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Mobile wine bottling plant.
You just buy bulk wine in the Western Cape and bottle and create your own label for your restaurant. 😏
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Starting from next week you will be able to find us in 100 Spar Tops in Gauteng.
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Was involved in a horrible car accident in Bronkhorstspruit this evening, coming back from doing deliveries. Our car was hit from behind by a bloody drunk sebono and we hit an eskom pole. Thanks God we had our seat belts on. I couldn't believe I came alive out of the car.
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I will later tell you the reasons Cruz Vodka is the only Celebrity-backed drink to maintain the bestseller status in South Africa for years and the reasons no celebrity will ever archive the same status.
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