Mvemve Raats

Mr De Compostella

Name: Mr De Compostella
Brand: Mvemve Raats
Price: 2150 ZAR
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Rating: 95 (4 reviews)

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Red Blend•Stellenbosch•South Africa

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Taste profile

Type

Red Blend

On the palate

The 2022 MR de Compostella is a barrel selection from all five varieties, which are assessed blind and undergo trial blends. Those chosen blends are then evaluated against the previous five vintages. This has a gorgeous bouquet, quite understated at first, opening with red fruit, briar and a touch of wild rosemary mixed with potpourri. The palate is medium-bodied with fine tannins, tensile and brimming with energy. A touch of black pepper and brown spices emerges as this fans out wonderfully toward the slightly wet stone mineral finish.

Red Fruit

Rosemary

Black Pepper

Mineral

Cultivar

44% Cabernet Sauvignon, 23% Cabernet Franc, 20% Malbec, 9% Merlot, 4% Petit Verdot

Region

Stellenbosch

Appellation

Stellenbosch

Country

South Africa

Alcohol

14%

Residual sugar

2.3 g/L

Cellaring potential

Up to 15 years

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The aim with this wine was to take each of the five components and make a varietal wine in it’s own right. The wines were then tasted blind after one year in barrel. The wines that scored less than 90 points were not considered for the final blend. The percentage components of the blend were determined by the scores achieved in the blind tasting. The resultant cuvee is called De Compostella (‘The Compilation of Stars’).

In 2002 Bruwer Raats combined his quest for mastery with winemaker and lifelong friend, Mzokhona Mvemve, and Mvemve Raats was born. Inspired by a constellation of stars merging to create something spectacular. A wine driven neither by style nor variety but its leading component, quality, we take the very best of each variety in each vintage to create an ultra-premium wine of distinction. Guided by the pursuit of excellence, every vintage marks the start of a new challenge. “MR is a wine based on passion and friendship, a desire the be the best. A wine driven by quality and consistency” Mzokhona Mvemve

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