Manduleli Solani

Manduleli Solani is the winner of the Distell Inter-Hotel Challenge 2021's Most Up & Coming Wine Steward award.

Manduleli Solani works at the iconic Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town. He won the Distell Inter-Hotel Challenge 2021's Most Up & Coming Wine Steward award, aka ‘The Wonga Award’. His prize was a R30 000 bursary from the South African National Youth Development Agency to study business online with the International Hotel School.

“I am loving person,” says Manduleli Solani. “In five years’ time I see myself in a higher position than where I am now. To be specific I want to be a Master Sommelier. I would love to visit Bali in Indonesia. I am my own role model reason being I am hard worker. I have worked so hard to be where I am right now and that gives me motivation each and every day. To broaden my knowledge, I read books and I do a lot of research as well. I’m reading As a Man Thinketh, a literary essay by James Allen."