Residency Brut Edition 1 bottle balanced on a concrete edge against a dark backdrop

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Residency

Positioning · Naming · Brand identity · Baobab Venture

Alcohol consumption has been falling for a decade. Celebration hasn't.

That gap should have been the easiest opportunity in drinks, and nobody had properly taken it. The premium non-alcoholic sparkling category was already worth over a billion dollars and growing at double digits — and every product in it was functionally fine and emotionally empty. The category had solved the practical problem, something to hold, and ignored the interesting one. People would order non-alcoholic. No brand made them proud to.

Residency is built for the person who would choose it even if alcohol were on the table.

It's a sparkling wine house first: South African Brut and Rosé, made with the rigour of serious winemaking and dealcoholised without apology. But the creative engine is African contemporary art. Every drop carries original work by leading African artists, commissioned around one brief — what does celebration mean to you? The label splits in two: half a gallery-quality artist card, half a full wraparound artwork. No two releases are the same.

The bottle is the gallery. The gallery funds the artist. The artist defines the culture.

Free from alcohol. Alive with African art. Celebration is an art.

Residency Brut Edition 1 bottle balanced on a concrete edge against a dark backdrop
Residency Rosé Edition 1 bottle beside a filled coupe in a shaft of hard light
Black Residency Edition 1 presentation box on a concrete plinth
Residency campaign frame reading Free from alcohol, alive with African art
Guests with coupes in front of a gallery wall reading Residency
Waiter pouring Residency Brut into a flute at a bistro table set with oysters and bread
Residency poured into a cut-glass coupe resting on a branded tennis racket courtside
Woman spraying a bottle of Residency in a candlelit room of filled flutes
Three Residency Brut Edition 1 bottles with matte black labels, the centre one in focus
Illustration of a child building a space game at a computer

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