The 2025 Cape Winemakers Guild Auction
Live Virtual Auction, 3 - 4 October 2025
The 2025 Cape Winemakers Guild Auction is a Live (in-person) and Online Auction held on Friday, 3 October from 12:30 - 20:00 and Saturday, 4 October from 09:00 - 15:00 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset West.
Session 1 | Friday, 03 October from 12:30 - 19:30
About this Item
100% Chenin Blanc
Wine of Origin: Polkadraai Hills Stellenbosch
Winemaker: Bruwer Raats
This wine is an expression of Bruwer Raats’s lifelong passion for and sustained focus on Chenin Blanc. Selected from a dedicated old vineyard in Polkadraai Hills Stellenbosch, this wine tells the story of the unique decomposed granite soil of this ward and reflects the family’s mastery of this variety. Fountain Terroir Specific Chenin Blanc is the first Chenin Blanc made by Bruwer for the CWG from a small portion of the Fountain Block vineyard identified as consistently yielding exceptional quality. Three barrels are produced from each vintage, whereafter the best barrel is selected for the CWG Auction.
Tasting Notes: Made from vines from the revered Fountain Block vineyard in Polkadraai Hills, Stellenbosch, this wine is complex, rich and textural, showing quince, yellow apple, mandarin orange and honeyed peaches. The palate is focused, fresh and pure with lovely mid-palate tension, textural concentration and a lingering wet stone minerality.
Ready to drink in the next 5 -10 years.
Bottle Size: 750ml
Case Size: 6 x 750ml
Total Cases Produced: 66
Quantity of Cases for Auction: 48
Alc: 13 vol%
RS: 2.1 g/l
TA: 5.4 g/l
pH: 3.32
This wine is packed in a wooden box.
Notes
Friday, 03 October Session
Lot 67: 12 bottles
Lot 68: 12 bottles
Lot 69: 12 bottles
Lot 70: 12 bottles
Lot 71: 36 bottles
Lot 72: 36 bottles
Lot 73: 36 bottles
Lot 74: 36 bottles
Saturday, 04 October Session
Lot 346: 12 bottles
Lot 347: 12 bottles
Lot 348: 36 bottles
Lot 349: 36 bottles
View all Raats Family Wines CWG lots for sale in this auction