20 Great Moments in Booze.

1. Sneaking a swig of whisky out the bottle in the middle of the day.
2. Sipping gin & tonic on an international flight.
3. Drinking Zamalek out of a quart while sitting on a beer crate.
4. A big glass of red wine by the fireplace in winter while it pours down outside.
5. That first impulsive tequila you order on Friday at 5.30pm that you know isn’t the last.
6. Moerkoffie at sunrise in the bush somewhere.
7. Quaffing white wine out a plastic cup on the beach for summer sundowners.
8. Sipping rum while on a sailboat somewhere in the tropics.
9. The first sip of ice cold beer around 11am at the Saturday market.
10. Uncorking a bottle of bubbly for no occasion whatsoever.
11. Hot chocolate spiked with Drambuie – and with marshmallows – on the couch under a duvet.
12. A dirty martini with three olives on the toothpick served at a swanky hotel bar.
13. That double Klippies & Coke at the bar in a small town with a name that ends in ‘-fontein.’
14. Squeezing naartjie Energade into your mouth at the Engen on Orange at 4am.*
15. A really spicy Bloody Mary on a Sunday morning while reading the Sunday Times.
16. Drinking good wine overlooking vineyards. Any vineyards.
17. That breakfast orange juice, secretly with vodka in it, drunk at the family gathering.
18. A pint of Bosun’s Bitter on the Lookout Deck in Plett.
19. A well mixed margarita, served on the rocks, in a tumbler with a salted rim (anywhere they can serve this).
20. That unnecessary last bottle of really good wine you opened at the dinner party but barely remember the next day.

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* – not alcoholic, but drunk due to alcohol.

(Comments below, feel free to add in any moments you feel should be on this list…)