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Bruwer Raats on Cabernet Franc.

Posted on 30th April, by admin in Blog, Videos, Wine Knowledge. No Comments

We recently held a 10 year vertical tasting of Raats Cabernet Franc. The wines were excellent and confirmed – what we all already knew – that Bruwer Raats is South Africa’s foremost Cabernet Franc producer. We speak here, of course, of single variety bottlings of which there are 42 others in the country. As Bruwer [...]

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