There are moments in this work that remind you why you fell in love with wine in the first place. Not a bottle — a person.
Ntsiki is the founder and winemaker of Aslina Wines in South Africa. She is also, by any honest accounting, a historic figure — the country's first Black woman winemaker. But I want to resist the urge to reduce her to a headline, because what struck me most about spending time with her wasn't the weight of what she's overcome. It was the clarity of her vision, and the completely singular way she sees wine.