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Climes of Cabernet Franc Weather Report 2022
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Climes of Cabernet Franc Weather Report 2022

Sale price£29.00

This is Chris' fifth release of his blended Cabernet Franc. It is once again exceptional. Produced from a handful of carefully selected vineyards across the Western Cape, this exhibits Cabernet Franc in all its beauty. More Less

This is Chris' fifth release of his blended Cabernet Franc. It is once again exceptional. Produced from a handful of carefully selected vineyards across the Western Cape, this exhibits Cabernet Franc in all its beauty. With attractive hints of green peppercorn, liquorice, polished coffee bean, forest floor and lavender. There are layers and layers to this wine that keeps evolving in the glass. The black cherry fruit is very pure on the palate, but somewhat darker and mysterious and with very good weight. It slides over the palate like silk, concentrated yet fresh, and just a little herbal tone on the long finish. Delicious and very grown up.
From the Press
Chris Keet Junior makes this impressive pan-Western Cape Cabernet Franc with grapes from Barrydale, Bot River, Elgin, the Upper Hemel-en-Aarde Valley and Paarl. Fermented with
90% whole bunches, it’s a beautifully scented, harmonious red with nuanced oak, dill, basil and chocolate aromas and graceful flavours of mint, bramble and red berries. 2025-31

93pts, Tim Atkin MW

Stunningly graceful tannins on a wine that has both Pinot-like transparency (precision, redcurrant) and Grenache-like translucency (softened, strawberries) but also mouth-watering wet-brick minerality and the long, leafy fragrance of cool Cabernet Franc. 7,872 bottle made. 17/20

Tamlyn Currin, June 2026, Jancisrobinson.com
Weather Report

About the Producer:

'Sense of place. Nod to heritage. Pursuit of the natural. These are the things that guide our philosophy of winemaking. The weather, however, will always have the final say. As it should.’

Behind The Bottle

Country

  • South Africa

Region

  • Western Cape

Type

  • Red

Grape

  • Cabernet Franc

Producer

WEATHER REPORT

Alcohol

13.5%