Official bottle shot
Ntsiki Biyela grew up in Mahlabathini in rural KwaZulu-Natal, won a scholarship to study winemaking at Stellenbosch University, and went on to become South Africa’s first Black female winemaker.
In 2016 she founded her own label, Aslina, named after her grandmother — the woman who raised her. Her approach is to keep things authentic and let each vintage speak for the place and the season it came from.
The flagship, Umsasane — the acacia thorn tree, and her grandmother’s nickname — is a Bordeaux blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. The range reaches from crisp whites to the everyday Ndubs trio.
