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2020 Mvemve Raats, MR de Compostella, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Franc
For laying down
Product: 20201238604
2020 Mvemve Raats, MR de Compostella, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Description

The 2020 De Compostella is composed of 30% Cabernet Franc, 28% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Malbec, 16% Merlot and 5% Petit Verdot. 

Beginning with a focused, juicy and complex nose of dark red fruits, the wine has an impeccable balance between oak, fruit and earthy floral tones. Full-bodied and with succulent acidity, the palette offers a firm frame of fine-grained tannins, while the fruit profile makes way for elegant earth and notes of crème de cassis to sway with subtle flavours of sage and spiced plum. The red blend continues to somersault and reveal its complexities over the long-lingering and ever-evolving finish. Be patient with this exceptional wine. It's gorgeous now but will have no problem ageing for two decades, possibly beyond. Your patience will be rewarded. Bravo!

Drink 2025 - 2040

Anthony Mueller, Wine Advocate (July 2023)

Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2020
Maturity For laying down
Grape List Cabernet Franc
Body Full Bodied
Producer Raats Family Wines

About this wine

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Franc is widely planted in Bordeaux and is the most important black grape grown in the Loire. In the Médoc it may constitute up to 15% of a typical vineyard - it is always blended with Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot and is used to add bouquet and complexity to the wines. It is more widely used in St.Emilion where it adapts well to the cooler and moister clay soils - Cheval Blanc is the most famous Cabernet Franc wine in the world, with the final blend consisting of up to 65% of the grape.
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Raats Family Wines

Bruwer Raat started Raats Family Wines in 2000.  Having carved out a reputation as a New World leader in the production of Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc, Bruwer crafts soil-specific wines that embody the unique characteristics of the Stellenbosch wine region. Amongst the Raats portfolio, Bruwer makes a wine called Mvemve Raats (MR) de Compostella, a collaborative venture with his friend Mzokhona Mvemve that began with the 2004 vintage.  Just one wine is made each year: a Bordeaux blend. The composition changes, because they both taste through barrels and only those that score 90-plus when sampled blind make it to the final blend.
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