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MICHAEL FRIDJHON: Raats shines with honed chenin and cabernet franc skills
The oft-expressed ideal of many winery start-ups is to limit the range to no more than one red and one white wine from the cellar. Few make this a reality. The need to feed their cash-hungry businesses compels even the most serious red wine producers to offer an early-release white wine to lubricate bank accounts. Still, there has been a gratifying trend among some of the more boutique Cape producers to narrow their focus, either eliminating noncore products or phasing them into second-label ranges. Someone who has been quite single-minded about his offering is Bruwer Raats of Raats Family Wines. Over the years he has honed his chenin and cabernet franc skills so that, except for the Red Jasper blend, in which there is still 48% cab franc, the Raats range is made up of different interpretations of these two varieties. There’s no doubt that he does them well: Raats Family Wines was the Winery of the Year for the 2018 Platter Guide, with two of the three cabernet francs and all three ...
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