By Nairobian Editor | 2 months ago
Nairobi’s upmarket Kileleshwa suburb has its name fleshed from Leleshwa, a Maasai word for a tree dominant in Naivasha.
Leleshwa is Kenya’s first home spun commercial wine brand. The vineyards from where Leleshwa is made are in Naivasha’s Morendat Farm. It is a 40-hectare affair that began in 1993 when billionaire businessman Pius Ngugi decided to venture into wine making. Morendat Farm is part of Ngugi’s Kenya Nut Company stable. Just so you know, Kenya Nut Company is Kenya’s biggest nut export in a market where there are only less than 300 nut players in the world. Kenya Nut Company that has cornered 10 percent of the world’s nut market is in the top five best nut concerns globally. Out of Africa is Kenya Nut’s flagship export from nuts grown in its 8,000 acre farm.