Bonang Matheba has never hidden her affection for champagne. Long before the fashion-and-fizz glow-up, her fans\u2014who know her best as \u201cQueen B\u201d\u2014were already hearing her signature enthusiasm for \u201cChampagne darling!\u201d from her YouTube days, with the bubbly clearly more than just a passing indulgence.<\/p>\n
As her career shifted and her public image grew, she leaned fully into that sparkling identity. Once her reality TV presence put her even more firmly in the spotlight, it also became clear she wasn\u2019t interested in quietly staying in the background\u2014she was ready to \u201cgive the people what they want,\u201d and she did exactly that, with bubbles at the center of it all.<\/p>\n
Instead of lending her name to a brand that already existed, Matheba took a different route. She spent more than two years building her own label from the ground up, keeping a close hand on the creative and product decisions throughout the process.<\/p>\n
The outcome was House of BNG, a M\u00e9thode Cap Classique collection made using Cape grapes. The brand launched in March 2019 in collaboration with Cape Wine Master Jeff Grier, and it was far from a hands-off celebrity endorsement. From the start, Matheba was involved in details that wine lovers obsess over\u2014everything from dialing in the balance between bitter and sweet to determining the size of the bubbles.<\/p>\n
At launch, she framed the project as both personal and proudly local. \u201cWe have some of the world\u2019s best grapes here in South Africa,\u201d she said then. \u201cThis is my love letter to Africa, and I\u2019m excited to introduce it to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The response was swift and loud. Both the Brut NV and Brut Ros\u00e9 NV sold out online and in Woolworths stores within their first week, and the early excitement translated into more than a billion impressions on X (previously known as Twitter). By September 2020\u2014just a little over a year after launch\u2014House of BNG had climbed to become the top-selling MCC brand at Woolworths.<\/p>\n
Matheba\u2019s influence extended beyond sales. She became the first Black woman to join the Cap Classique Producers Association, a major industry milestone that arrived alongside another landmark moment shortly after the label\u2019s debut. Two months after House of BNG launched, it was chosen to provide sparkling wine for President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s inauguration at Loftus Stadium, making Matheba the first female MCC producer to supply a presidential inauguration.<\/p>\n
Since those early chapters, the brand\u2019s offering has expanded in a big way. In 2020, a premium Prestige Reserve MCC arrived, with the wine aged on the lees for several years. The range also includes canned sparkling wines\u2014Nectar Blanc and Nectar Ros\u00e9\u2014and, beginning in July 2024, a non-alcoholic version, Nectar Ros\u00e9 Non-Alcoholic, available in a 250ml can. Looking ahead, a brunch-inspired canned Mimosa is set to roll out in early 2026.<\/p>\n
House of BNG hasn\u2019t stayed confined to bottles and cans, either. The brand has become a regular presence at premium events and has maintained a multi-year partnership with the Miss South Africa pageant. On the partnerships she chooses, Matheba has said that any platform supporting and uplifting women in the country will always have her backing.<\/p>\n
And as her business and brand footprint keep growing, the conversation around her ambitions continues as well\u2014particularly her drive to expand beyond the spotlight and into the spaces where stories are shaped and elevated on every stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bonang Matheba has never hidden her affection for champagne. Long before the fashion-and-fizz glow-up, her fans\u2014who know her best as \u201cQueen B\u201d\u2014were already hearing her signature enthusiasm for \u201cChampagne darling!\u201d from her YouTube days, with the bubbly clearly more than just a passing indulgence. As her career shifted and her public image grew, she leaned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_title":"Bonang Matheba Builds BNG House, Champagne Passion","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Bonang Matheba pours champagne passion into her new BNG house build\u2014celebrating style, sparkle, and her \u201cQueen B\u201d glow-up in fresh","mma_seo_breadcrumb_text":"","mma_seo_breadcrumb_url":"","mma_seo_breadcrumb_hide_ui":"","mma_seo_breadcrumb_labels":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-celebrities"],"yoast_head":"\n