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Witblits

Clear unaged grape spirit, fierce and colourless

South Africa Wine & spirit Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

The Cape’s white lightning, distilled from wine grapes on Boland farms and sold from unlabelled bottles at country markets.

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What is Witblits?

Witblits is a wine & spirit from South Africa: clear unaged grape spirit, fierce and colourless. The Cape’s white lightning, distilled from wine grapes on Boland farms and sold from unlabelled bottles at country markets.

Made with

grapes

Cooked

distilled

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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