Tasty summer wines for entertaining in the great outdoors under blue skies, blazing sunshine and all the thrill of the grill. To ensure your next braai is a sizzling success, here are some delicious South African wines and drinks to bring new life and colour to the party.

Fiver Frizzanté

Available at selected Checkers and Shoprite Liquor stores countrywide, Fiver Frizzanté brings together the delights of grape and strawberries in a glass with a touch of sparkle. It’s the perfect refreshment when the temperatures soar – the drink at the braai. It’s a sophisticated sipper for sun-seeking fun-lovers and ideal whether you’re by yourself or ripping up the town with your besties. Whenever, wherever!

Armilla Méthode Cap Classique

Armilla celebrates Avondale’s uniquely energised, living system where everything from the minerals in the soil to the stars in the sky is connected to the liveliness of our premium wines. Rich and round on the palate, Armilla is a perfect balance of warm-toasty hazelnut bread, fresh quince and gardenia. 

De Krans Wild Ferment Chardonnay 2018

 This unwooded Chardonnay has lovely notes of citrus and butterscotch on the nose and boasts, with full mouth flavours of lime, grapefruit and creamy butterscotch on the palate. The wine also has a refreshing acidity, which is well balanced with the fruit flavours. It’s the ideal everyday white with the creamy and fruity character allowing for a smooth transition between spring and summer. Enjoy it with chicken from the braai!

Diemersfontein The Prodigy Pinotage 2018

Long famous for its revolutionary ‘coffee-chocolate’ Pinotage, Diemersfontein wine estate outside Wellington proved it’s a no one-trick-pony when it comes to this iconic South African cultivar, with the release of a third Pinotage in the range, The Prodigy. The new wine available from the cellar at R75.00 per bottle and goes really well with this monster of a braai meal.