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. Tinashe discovered that wine could be as intellectually and historically complex as a painting or literature, here began the evolution of his own taste, inspiring him to obtain a diploma from the Cape Wine Academy.  

His role as head sommelier at The Test Kitchen nurtured the skills that would later allow him to launch Kumusha Wines. He completed the Michael Fridjohn win judging course and 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 lead for 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.