Notes of green apple, lime leaf, grass, white blossoms, and grapefruit rind. It has beautiful complexity and surprising depth. Extended time on the lees gives this wine a unique, lingering, silky finish. A fantastic alternative to New Zealand style Sauvignon Blancs. Aslina is a wine company owned by Ntsiki Biyela, the first black woman winemaker in South Africa. She is a highly awarded winemaker, and in September 2017 was named among the Most Innovative Women in Food & Drink, by a joint effort of Food & Wine Magazine with Fortune Magazine. Aslina is the name of her late grandmother who was, and remains, her inspiration. She grew up in Mahlabathini, a rural village in Kwazulu Natal, and matriculated from high school in 1996. Having spent a year as a domestic worker, she was awarded a scholarship to study winemaking in 1999 at Stellenbosch University with one catch: she had to study winemaking, and her coursework would be in Afrikaans, a language she did not speak. .