Aslina 'ndubs Rosé', Swartland, Western Cape, South Africa 2025Ntsiki Biyela is celebrated as one of South Africa's first Black female winemakers. She grew up in Mahlabathini, a rural village in KwaZulu Natal, and received a scholarship to study winemaking at Stellenbosch University, graduating in 2003. She spent over a decade as winemaker at boutique winery Stellekaya before founding her own label, Aslina Wines, in 2016 named after her late grandmother. In 2025 she launched the ndubs range, a more accessible,

VINIFICATION: Employs traditional winemaking techniques

Folded into fried rice or warm grain bowls

Vines average 45 years of age

hand harvested in 17 kg crates

Pesticide and herbicide free

Le Puy produces most of its wines under the Francs—Côtes de Bordeaux AOC

smooth and firm

when Roland Dechannes established the estate

PRODUCER: Fra' Mani Handcrafted FoodsORIGIN: California

Rainfall in 2021 totaled just 12

Winemaker: Jean-Marc Sélèque

Dry farmed