Sparkling Rebula from the cellar that first made it in 1962, fresh and fruit-forward, and still under eight euros a bottle.
Tip: The 1962 date matters: Klet Brda has been bottling sparkling Rebula here since before the style was fashionable anywhere.
The Bagueri Rebula is the cooperative's skin-macerated top tier, named for Silverio de Baguer, the Catalan count who owned Dobrovo Castle and planted vines here without tree supports in 1881.
Tip: Still well under twenty-five euros, and the closest a co-op bottle gets to the small-estate amber wines of Ceglo and Medana.
The Klasična line Rebula from Matjaž Četrtič's cellar at Gonjače, the varietal bottling of the house that built itself around this grape.
Tip: Ferdinand prices its whole Klasična range at one figure, so a mixed six of Rebula, Malvazija, Sivi Pinot, Merlot and Cabernet costs the same per bottle.
Malvazija in its dry Adriatic form from the Gonjače cellar, the same Klasična tier and the same price as the house Rebula.
Tip: The Época version of this wine costs 25 euros and spends time on skins. Taste the 13.50 euro bottling first to hear what maceration changes.
Pinot Gris grown on Brda marl and bottled without skin contact in the Klasična range, a counterweight to the Amber Gris the same cellar makes in its Época line.
Tip: Buy it alongside the Amber Gris if your budget stretches: same grape, same slope, two completely different wines.
Brda's main red variety in its plain varietal form, from the Gonjače cellar that Matjaž Četrtič began working in 1992.
Tip: Merlot ripens reliably on these terraces and the Klasična bottling is the region's everyday red rather than a cellar wine.
The entry Rebula of the Kristančič family at Ceglo, whose vineyards straddle the Slovenian and Italian border and have been organic certified since 2004.
Tip: Movia's Lunar Ribolla costs well over forty euros. This bottle is the same family, the same parcels and a quarter of the price.