FROM DOMESTIC WORKER TO ACCLAIMED WINEMAKER
When Ntsiki Biyela got a scholarship from South African Airways (SAA) in 1999 to study winemaking, she saw it merely as a chance to escape poverty and make something of herself. Never in her wildest dreams did she imagine she would become an award-winning household name revered by wine lovers around the globe.
Her range of wines is currently exported by Wines of the World in the US, Arista Kiso in Japan, Vin Africa in Germany, Molovino in Taiwan, African Wines in the Netherlands and Veevinos in Ghana.
Ntsiki admits she knew so little about wine back then that she mistook ciders like Hunter’s Gold for wine. “I wasn’t interested in wines, let alone making them.
