It’s surely not a question of “if” but “when” Distell’s new broom, Richard Rushton, will add a French Champagne brand to his offering given the success of Bisquit Cognac and Burn Stewart whiskies. SA has a well-known love for fizz and while the quality of local MCCs has come on leaps and bounds thanks to initiatives such as the Amorim Cap Classique Challenge whose results will be uncorked at the Twelve Apostles later this week, various Champagne Festivals and events such as The World is Your Oyster in a Glass of Bubbles.

Sponsored by Ultra Liquors, it will roll in summer at Mondiall Restaurant on the Waterfront on Saturday 1 November from 11am-3pm. By matching different size oysters (which translates to molluscs of different ages) with MCC and Champagnes that have spent varying months and years maturing on their lees, Ultra takes bubbly to the next level of sophistication.

Which is what Bottega Gold Prosecco (above) does. Packaged in the bottle with highest bling quotient in town, Bottega Prosecco is twice-fermented with characteristic bubbles and hints of yeast, flowers and soft summer fruits.

Bottega Prosecco Gold is the Ferrari of Proseccos and I’m not talking Jeremy Clarkson, either. The wine is notable for its persistent foam and fine bubble. Aromas of fruit and flowers, scents of Golden Delicious apples, Williams pears, and lily of the valley flowers. A wine for the deeply superficial, brash and flash and those who subscribe to Italian elegance in sunglasses, fashion and food. The kind of Prosecco to celebrate the opening of Neil Grant’s Mouth on Bree. To accompany one of Giorgio Nava’s hanger steaks or even a pizza at Posticino in Sea Point. It matches the gold chains nestling in one’s chest hair. Delicious.