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Botanical Spritzer · South Africa

Own Your
Altitude

Not height. Presence. Your calm, your climb, your way — a premium spritzer crafted with sceletium, for movement and pause alike.

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Infused with sceletium
Low calorie · Botanical

A premium spritzer for movement and pause alike.

Oya is a premium botanical spritzer, crafted with sceletium to encourage an active, social, and grounded way of life — full of South African soul, with less calories.

From the trail to the braai, the long lunch to the campfire — wherever the good company is, Oya pulls up a chair alongside you.

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The Range

One blend. Two ways to take it.

Hibiscus & Blood Orange — a low-calorie botanical spritzer infused with sceletium. Bold, warm and grounded, in the can that suits the moment.

Red Can
01 · Botanical Spritzer

Hibiscus & Blood Orange

Bold · Warm · Grounded
4.5%ABV
LowCal
300mlCan
White Can
02 · Alcohol-Free Spritzer

Hibiscus & Blood Orange

Bold · Warm · Grounded · 0.0%
0.0%ABV
LowCal
300mlCan

Launching with a single blend in two cans — the red, and the alcohol-free white. Further flavours in the colour rollout will follow.

Social // The Altitude of Connection

Wherever the company happens.

Around a fire, at a festival, on a couch, after the surf. Infused with sceletium, Oya softens the moment without dulling it — easy conversations, shared laughter, and the gentle shift that makes people feel open, present, and at ease.

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Our Story

It started at a wedding.

Two guests with OYA at a Franschhoek wedding
Where OYA began — a wedding in Franschhoek

OYA didn't begin in a boardroom. It began in Franschhoek, at the wedding of two close friends. They had asked me to officiate, so I found myself wearing two hats that day: priest and guest.

The bride, Jo, had once worked with a non-alcoholic drink containing sceletium — an indigenous South African botanical known for its naturally calming properties. A few cans were sitting on the bar. As a winemaker, curiosity got the better of me.

“This would taste so much better with alcohol.”

Not because it needed to be stronger — because it had the foundations of something special. Lightly sparkling. Low in sugar, low in calories. Naturally relaxing. Add a touch of alcohol, and it became a drink you could enjoy all afternoon without feeling weighed down.

We mixed a few cocktails for the four of us.

Then our friends wanted one.

Before long, the entire wedding was drinking them.

People weren't drinking faster. They weren't drinking more. They were simply enjoying themselves — relaxed, social, full of laughter. It felt different.

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I couldn't stop thinking about that day. For the next year, I tried to convince myself it wasn't a business. I looked for every reason it wouldn't work. Surely someone else would do it. Surely there was a flaw I hadn't seen.

Eventually, I stopped looking for reasons not to do it.

As a winemaker, I've spent my career understanding flavour, fermentation, and how people experience what they drink. But I've always believed the best beverages are about more than what's in the glass. They're about where they take you, and who you're sharing them with.

OYA became my opportunity to build something that reflected that belief — a premium botanical spritzer inspired by South African ingredients, made for people who love long lunches, mountain sunsets, beach days, weddings, campfires, and conversations that last longer than planned.

It isn't just about what's in the can. It's about slowing down, looking up, and making time for the people and places that matter most.

Tim Whitfield · Founder & Winemaker, OYA

Coastal vygies in flower on the Cape strandveld
Long lunches, mountain sunsets, conversations that last longer than planned
“Wherever life takes you, we hope OYA is there for the moments worth remembering.”
Own Your Altitude
The Manifesto
“Own Your Altitude. Not height, presence.
Your calm. Your climb. Your way.”
South African soul, rooted, social
Read the manifesto in full

Oya. The shift, the moment that carries you from one state to another. From the grind to the exhale. From the climb to the calm. From stillness to connection.

Born in South Africa, Oya holds the rhythm of its people and places — bold skies, endless roads, familiar gatherings, and the spirit of always finding joy in the moment.

Refreshment that feels light yet grounded, crafted with intention. Infused with sceletium, Oya is made to gently alter your mood — to steady, to balance, to soften the edges so connection comes easily.

A premium spritzer for movement and pause alike. For the trail, the ocean, the dance floor, or the couch. Wherever the good company gathers, Oya moves with you.

South African soul, rooted, social, and made to carry you lightly into what's next.

What's Inside

Infused with sceletium.

Nature is our natural altitude. It represents the instinct to step outside, breathe deeper, and reconnect — whether that's a trail run, a beach walk, or sitting quietly under open skies.

It speaks directly to what's inside the can: botanicals, herbs, and sceletium — plants long valued for their calming, grounding qualities. Restorative, unforced, and quietly powerful.

Low CalPer can
4.5% / 0.0%ABV options
SceletiumBotanical infusion
100%South African soul
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