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Could this be the best MR yet? Debuted in 2004, now in its 11th vintage, the project is by Mzokhona Mvemve and Bruwer Raats. Each component of this five-way Bordeaux-style blend (all the grapes, including 15% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot, are from Raats’s Polkadraai farm) is matured in separate barrels, the friends then blind tasting each to determine inclusion. Lifted aromas of sea breeze, oyster shell, seductive black roses, sappy twigs and a wave of polished wood resin, like the inside of an instrument. Succulent, rich flavours of blackcurrants, dark plums and cherries are wrapped up tight in silky tannins and flushed with granitic freshness. Power and precision.

Cabernet Franc

Cabernet Sauvignon

Merlot

Raats, MR de Compostella, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 2021

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Could this be the best MR yet? Debuted in 2004, now in its 11th vintage, the project is by Mzokhona Mvemve and Bruwer Raats. Eac

Raats, MR de Compostella, Stellenbosch, South Africa 2021

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