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Tasting Note
Yellow apple and pineapple with green melon and lime. Fresh and fruity, finishing with zesty citrus and a long, mineral tail.
Drink it with: curries and spicy dishes, sushi or oysters.
The Winemaking
Each soil type is fermented separately: granite for lime and minerality, sandstone for fruit and structure. Cold-settled, then fermented cool at 14–16°C in steel, with six months on the lees. No oak.
The Vineyards
Vines averaging 35 years old on decomposed granite and Table Mountain sandstone, a mix of trellised and bush vines, partly dry-farmed.
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
Yellow apple and pineapple with green melon and lime. Fresh and fruity, finishing with zesty citrus and a long, mineral tail.
Drink it with: curries and spicy dishes, sushi or oysters.
The Winemaking
Each soil type is fermented separately: granite for lime and minerality, sandstone for fruit and structure. Cold-settled, then fermented cool at 14–16°C in steel, with six months on the lees. No oak.
The Vineyards
Vines averaging 35 years old on decomposed granite and Table Mountain sandstone, a mix of trellised and bush vines, partly dry-farmed.
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