Raka Wines

Raka to go full volume at Oyster Festival

29 May 2015

The popular Oyster, Wine and Food Festival has grown into one of the biggest autumn wine occasions in Gauteng.
Apart from fresh oysters in abundance the other big attraction is wine. A multitude of wine stalls will be selling wine directly to the public, mostly at cellar door prices. This is a great opportunity for wine lovers to stock up on red wine for the winter months ahead. 
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Our farm, brand and family:

The Dreyer Family bought the farm, Remhoogte south east of Hermanus in the Akkedisberg area in 1982. Piet Dreyer was doing commercial fishing at the time. They ran livestock and later planted citrus trees. Piet’s wife and children tended the farm in his absence. During 1999 the Dreyers planted 10 hectares Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Shiraz. Since then a few hectares were added every year, and the 68 hectares ...

The farm is situated in a narrow valley in the Kleinriver Mountains, southernmost mountain range in Africa. The vineyards are planted on either side of the Klein River that flows through the valley on its way to the Atlantic Ocean in Walkerbay. This means that there are both north and south facing slopes under vines and even some vineyards facing to the west. The altitude varies between about 58m above sea level for the vineyards planted next ...

The cellar and winemaking
The private family owned cellar was completed in time for the 2002 harvest, and can accommodate 400 tonnes per harvest. It is gravity-fed, so that pumps are only used to get the wine from the fermenters to the barrels in the adjoining barrel cellar. There are sufficient small fermenters to separately accommodate the grapes from each vineyard block. The wine so separately vinified is also kept separate during the agei...