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Bruwer Raats



Raats Family Wines get the nod from JR and then some
11 January 2006  by Raats Family Wines
The prominent British wine writer Jancis Robinson awarded the Raats Original Chenin Blanc 2004 the coveted title of Wine of the Week on her website in early December last year.
Ms Robinson calls the range ?some of the most individual and exciting? she tasted at the South African generic tasting in London in October 2005.

She writes that Bruwer Raats?s wines have ?real integrity, though pretty reasonable prices? and singles out the Raats Original Chenin Blanc 2004, commending its ?opulent nose? and ?surprisingly tight palate?.

She advises that the ?riper? Raats Chenin Blanc 2004 be drunk up to two and a half years from now. The Raats Cabernet Franc she writes, is ?so voluptuous and spicy? and ?not for the faint-hearted?.

This latest feather in the Raats Family Wines? cap follows shortly after the Raats Chenin Blanc 2004 was scored 91 points in the American Wine Spectator in late 2005 ? for the second consecutive year.

Also see 'SA Chenin comes of age' - Bruwer Raats.

Click here for Ms Robinson's article.
 
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