Raats Family Winery

We are specialists in the crafting of exceptional wines from the chenin blanc and cabernet franc varietals.

It is our mission to consistently produce chenin blanc and cabernet franc of outstanding quality from South Africa and to establish these wines as international benchmarks.

Our family lives for and dreams about these two varieties and passionately produces wines we believe are truly distinct from vineyards considered old in the South African context in the Stellenbosch area, east of Cape Town. We have earned ourselves a reputation internationally as a New World leader in the production of chenin blanc and cabernet franc.

The Raats Family Wines team consists of Bruwer – in the role of winemaker and marketer, his brother Jasper (living in Nelson, NZ) – business partner and viticulturist at large, Jasper Raats Senior - coaxed out of retirement to manage viticulture duties, and Janice - Bruwer’s wife, attorney-at-law, mother of six and, miraculously, the keeper of all things financial, administrative and logistics related.

Welcome to our Family Winery
Bruwer Raats

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