Best Value

Best Value Rating System

The thinking is simple. If you have two wines with the same quality rating - say 3 stars - within a category, one costing R30 and the other costing R60, which is the better purchase? Obviously the R30 wine.

So each wine rated was divided by its star rating, providing a price per star of quality. The wines were then ranked from lowest price per star to highest price per star, within each category. The wine with the lowest price paid per star is thus the best value purchase in that category.

V20 / V19 The highest possible Value scores. These wines are our Best Value award winners and judged to be the best value for money of all wines entered.

V18 (and below) Wines with a Value score of 18 or less do not win a Best Value award, but may still be excellent wines. Only wines rated above 2-and-a-half stars were judged.

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Superlative wine, top class, a masterpiece

Excellent, wine of distinction (4-and-a-half stars is on the cusp of 5 stars)

Good (3 stars) to very good (3-and-a-half stars). Fine character and style

Average, appealing ^*

Acceptable, ordinary ^*

Half a star, as in 2-and-a-half stars, 3-and-a-half stars, 4-and-a-half stars

^* Wines rated lower than 2-and-a-half stars were not eligible for inclusion in the 2013 Best Value Wine Guide.