Raats Dolomite Cabernet Franc
- Red
- South Africa
- Stellenbosch
- Cabernet Franc
- Tracked vintages
- 6
- Community notes
- 132
- Merchant offers
- 16
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 76/ 100132 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £13per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
- Drinking window
- 2024–2042drinking2021 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 73 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Cabernet Franc.
- Body3.5 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · earthy, smoke, leather, minerals, pencil shavings
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, cranberry, red currant
- Black fruit · blackcurrant, blackberry, dark fruit, plum, black fruit
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, coffee
- Spice · pepper, licorice, eucalyptus, dried herbs, cinnamon
- Vegetal · bell pepper, grass, green bell pepper, roasted pepper, tomato
Grapes: Cabernet Franc. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 2023unit not stated
- 202280drinkersunit not stated
- 202193critic£13 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
- 202080drinkersunit not stated
- 201995critic£10 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201877drinkersunit not stated
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2019
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2019
- drinking, window 2022–2042
- Lowest price
- 2019
- £10 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
Where to go next
LWIN 1376704