Award-winning peri peri, made by hand in Pretoria
9 medals since 2022 at the Aurora International Taste Challenge and SA Food & Beverage Awards. For your braai, your kitchen or your own brand.
★★★★★ 5.0 on Google (16 reviews)
🏅 9 awards – Aurora International & SA Food & Beverage Awards
📍 Hand-made in Samcor Park, Pretoria
🚚 Free delivery on orders over R600
Private label & custom manufacturing
Your sauce. Your label.
Made by us.
Launch your own sauce, marinade or spice brand without building a factory. We develop it, make it and bottle it under your name – in our facility in Samcor Park, Pretoria.
- Free product developmentNo upfront R&D fees
- Match almost any sauceBring us one you love – we reverse-engineer it
- Low minimumsStart small, scale when it sells
- Up to 5,000 L a weekCapacity to grow with you
- Compliance supportHelp with food-safety and label requirements
- Free sample firstTaste it before you commit
- Award-winning for our clients tooA client sauce we manufacture won Silver at the Aurora International Taste Challenge 2024 and the SA Food & Beverage Awards 2025
Our story
From a lockdown kitchen to 9 medals
It started during the COVID lockdowns, when founder Wayne van Zyl set out to recreate the peri peri he grew up with – the chips from the Portuguese-owned Atlantic Café in Nelspruit, after school. Batch after batch, he got it right: fresh chilli, paprika, garlic, ginger and black pepper. Friends and family kept asking for more, and Vasco Da Gama Peri Peri was born.
The name honours Portuguese cooking and the old spice trade routes along Africa’s coast. Every sauce is still made by hand in our own facility in Samcor Park, Pretoria.
Our products have won 9 medals since 2022:
- Gold – Mild Peri Peri, Aurora International Taste Challenge 2022
- Double Gold – Anti-Pirate Spice, Aurora 2023
- Gold – Jalapeño Sauce, Aurora 2023
- Gold – Bloody Pirate Hot Sauce, Aurora 2024
- Silver – Hot & Mild Peri Peri, Aurora 2023
- Silver – Bloody Pirate Hot Sauce, SA Food & Beverage Awards 2025
- Silver ×2 – a client sauce we manufacture, Aurora 2024 & SA Food & Beverage Awards 2025
Today we make sauce for braai lovers, restaurants, butcheries and other food brands across South Africa.
Taste the rangeReviews
★★★★★ 5.0 on Google
Every one of our 16 Google reviews is 5 stars. Here's what customers say.
★★★★★
“It is easy to make sauces that burn from top to bottom; but it takes a master to make a sauce that taste like 5-star restaurant sauce.”
★★★★★
“One of the best sauces I have tried in a long time. Once you have tried it, you will never settle for another brand.”
★★★★★
“Bursting with flavour and proofs local is lekka. Give them a try, you will not be disappointed.”
★★★★★
“One of the best Portuguese spice/sauce combos I have ever purchased!”
★★★★★
“This peri-peri sauce is THE BOMB! It's very peri good! Love it!”
★★★★★
“Everybody who tastes it also want me to buy for them.”
For the trade
Butcheries, shisa nyamas, restaurants & caterers
Trade prices on cases of 6 and 2 x 5L catering packs. Full tax invoice on every order. Free delivery on trade orders over R4,500.