{"id":290130,"date":"2021-07-02T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meet-the-zimbabwean-sommeliers-breaking-barriers-one-cork-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2021-07-02T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T19:55:05","slug":"meet-the-zimbabwean-sommeliers-breaking-barriers-one-cork-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meet-the-zimbabwean-sommeliers-breaking-barriers-one-cork-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#Meet the Zimbabwean sommeliers breaking barriers, one cork at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Meet the Zimbabwean sommeliers breaking barriers, one cork at a time<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG \u2013 When\u00a0Zimbabwean\u00a0Tinashe Nyamudoka left his homeland to work as a waiter in a restaurant in neighboring South Africa he had never tasted wine. Now, 11 years later, he is a renowned sommelier with his own brand.<\/p>\n

Nyamudoka, 36, stars in a new documentary \u201cBlind Ambition,\u201d which follows the journey of Zimbabwe\u2019s first\u00a0sommeliers\u00a0to take part in the Blind Wine Tasting Championships in France in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n

The four men left Zimbabwe at the height of the country\u2019s economic crisis more than a decade ago in search of work and have become some of Africa\u2019s top wine experts.<\/p>\n

Since the end of 2017, Nyamudoka has owned his own wine brand Kumusha, which means home or origin in Shona.<\/p>\n

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A bottle of Kumusha wine, a brand owned by Zimbabwean sommelier Tinashe Nyamudoka.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cI am going for something which is accessible, which is quality and most of the\u00a0time\u00a0which is easy on the pocket,\u201d he told Reuters inside a Johannesburg restaurant while opening a bottle of Kumusha Cabernet Sauvignon & Cinsault 2020.<\/p>\n

Nyamudoka said his wines were selling out in the United States, Kenya, Holland and Zimbabwe and would soon start exporting to Britain and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Robert Coe and Warwick Ross, the Australian producers of \u201cBlind Ambition,\u201d said they were drawn to the story of the four Black\u00a0Zimbabweans because they came from a background with no history and culture of wine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat these guys are out to disrupt in a major way the prevailing wisdom which is that wine drinkers are white, that people with wine knowledge are predominantly white, that fascinated us,\u201d Ross, who is also a winemaker, said.<\/p>\n

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Zimbabwean Tinashe Nyamudoka, a famed sommelier with his own wine brand, smells a glass of wine during an interview with Reuters in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 25, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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The film, which had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York three weeks ago, clinched the audience award for best documentary.<\/p>\n

During his first live wine pouring event at a Johannesburg eatery, Nyamudoka said he sometimes missed working in restaurants: \u201cIt\u2019s more like a fix so you want to have more and more of it.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Zimbabwean Tinashe Nyamudoka, a famed sommelier with his own wine brand, reacts as he speaks during an interview with Reuters in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 25, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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“#Meet the Zimbabwean sommeliers breaking barriers, one cork at a time” JOHANNESBURG \u2013 When\u00a0Zimbabwean\u00a0Tinashe Nyamudoka left his homeland to work as a waiter in a restaurant in neighboring South Africa he had never tasted wine. Now, 11 years later, he is a renowned sommelier with his own brand. Nyamudoka, 36, stars in a new documentary…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/zimbabwean-sommeliers-02.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[110930,72602,72771,99104,73625],"class_list":["post-290130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7-2-21","tag-south-africa","tag-wine","tag-wineries","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}