Ntsiki Biyela is one of South Africa’s best-known winemakers. She’d never tasted wine before she received a scholarship in 1998 to study viticulture at Stellenbosch University. Now, she and her company, Aslina — named for the grandmother who raised her — are known and acclaimed throughout the wine world.

As a Black female winemaker — the first in South Africa — Ntsiki Biyela is an icon in the country’s wine world.

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Stellenbosch with Ntsiki Biyela

As a Black female winemaker — the first in South Africa — Ntsiki Biyela is an icon in the country’s wine world. Her label Aslina makes some of South Africa’s most coveted wines.

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