In recent years, black wine growers, distillers’ and drinkers have been staking their claim on the industry.
Tinashe Nyamudoka had never tasted wine in his life when in 2009 he embarked on a 4000-kilometre journey south as an economic refugee from Zimbabwe to the city of Cape Town, the wine capital of neighbouring South Africa.
Today, Nyamudoka is a boisterous sommelier who owns a brand called Kumusha Wines. He’s a success story in a famously white-dominated industry – because nothing smells more of white privilege in South Africa than wine.
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