Christmas shopping gives me the shivers, and that’s especially true when it comes to giving gifts to people you don’t really know all that well.

Let’s make the process simple, then.

Does the person like gin? If yes, then buy them one of the three Cape Town Gin gift packs we told you about last month, and consider it done.

But hey, maybe you want to treat yourself while you’re at it, so here’s what you’re going to do next.

Buy any Cape Town Gin 750ml bottle, hang on to that proof of purchase, and enter the Cape Town Gin competition that could win you a trip to the Mother City worth R30 000.

You just have to head to their competition page, tell them which of the stylish Cape Town Gin and 50ml Gift packs is your favourite combination (Classic Dry, Rooibos Red, or the Pink Lady), and you’re good to go.

The competition, which closes at midnight on December 31 (it’s almost 2020 – let that sink in), has three cracking prizes.

(You can see all of the terms and conditions here.)

First Prize – A TRIP TO CAPE TOWN WORTH R30 000

A weekend in Cape Town for two people which includes the following:

• Two Return flights from Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein or Port Elizabeth.
• Two Nights, including breakfast, in the wonderful V&A Waterfront Hotel, part of the Newmark Group
• Dinner on the Saturday night at one of Cape Town’s leading restaurants.
• Uber vouchers to the Value of R1 000
• A bespoke tutored tasting of our three Cape Town Gins
• A sunset cruise on the magical Mirage Catamaran yacht (weather depending)
• Two Tickets on the very popular Cape Town Red Bus around the peninsula.

Not too shabby, hey?

The Second Prize is a hamper containing 12 bottles of Cape Town Gins, and 12 cases of Fitch & Leedes mixers, so you won’t be needing a trip to the bottle store any time soon.

The Third Prize is a bottle of each Cape Town Gin (Classic Dry, Rooibos Red, and the Pink Lady), and a case of Fitch & Leedes mixers.

When you consider that all you have to do is buy a single bottle of Cape Town Gin to enter – and again, they do make great Christmas prezzies – it seems rude not to at least try and win.

Check out the competition page here for all of the details, and good luck to all!