2024 Kumusha Sauvignon Blanc

100% Sauvignon Blanc. Picked in the early hours of the morning and treated reductively to preserve freshness and protect the aromatics from the very start of the process. Spontaneous native yeast fermentation and aging on the lees for 4 months in stainless steel tanks. 12.86% alcohol. 

Light, fresh and crisp, with melon, green apple and citrus fruits, light floral notes and minerals. Zippy acidity but well balanced, with a slight tropical tinge to the finish. Somewhere in between France and New Zealand in style and excellent value.

Kumusha in the Zimbabwean Shona language translates to ‘your home’, ‘your roots’ or ‘your origin’. Zimbabwean sommelier, Tinashe Nyamudoka, is the founder of Kumusha Wines. Tinashe Nyamudoka is a Zimbabwean immigrant bon vivant and gleeful rule-buster. Where he grew up, there was no commercial wine culture and the vast majority of the population had little or no cultural connection to wine drinking. He began his love affair with wine in 2008 working as a waiter at The Roundhouse Restaurant in Camps Bay, Cape Town. He became a regular independent wine judge in South Africa, and even had the opportunity to sit on a jury at MUNDUS Vini, Germany and Wine2Wine, Italy.  He then received his certificate in Wine Business Management from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.  Along the way a friendship formed with Attie Louw, a winemaker from the family estate Opstal in the Slanghoek valley.  This led to the opportunity for Tinashe to blend his own wines, and in 2017, Kumusha Wines was founded.  The brand now has a worldwide presence and is exported to the USA, Zimbabwe, Kenya and the Netherlands.