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Tasting Note
Pure fruit and balanced elegance. Dark and red cherry lead, with dark berries, spice and herbs on the palate, a touch of wet-stone minerality and a soft, velvety finish.
Drink it with: game birds in red wine sauce, beef fillet or pork loin.
The Winemaking
Hand-sorted three times, cold-soaked for five days, fermented at 28°C and basket-pressed. Malolactic in steel, then 14 months in older 300-litre French barrels.
The Vineyards
Grown only on decomposed dolomite granite, which brings high natural acidity, freshness and a long mineral finish. Picked by hand at full ripeness in February.
The Producer
Bruwer Raats founded Raats Family Wines in 2000 to champion two grapes few people cared about then: Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc. His plots in the granite-rich Polkadraai Hills are now regarded as one of Stellenbosch's finest wards.
The Details
Tasting Note
Pure fruit and balanced elegance. Dark and red cherry lead, with dark berries, spice and herbs on the palate, a touch of wet-stone minerality and a soft, velvety finish.
Drink it with: game birds in red wine sauce, beef fillet or pork loin.
The Winemaking
Hand-sorted three times, cold-soaked for five days, fermented at 28°C and basket-pressed. Malolactic in steel, then 14 months in older 300-litre French barrels.
The Vineyards
Grown only on decomposed dolomite granite, which brings high natural acidity, freshness and a long mineral finish. Picked by hand at full ripeness in February.
The Producer
Bruwer Raats founded Raats Family Wines in 2000 to champion two grapes few people cared about then: Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc. His plots in the granite-rich Polkadraai Hills are now regarded as one of Stellenbosch's finest wards.
The Details