VarietalsSauvignonasse

Tip: Sauvignonasse is one of the region's defining whites and hard to find outside it. Buy two, the second one keeps.

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Rebula Krasno ★ 4.4

Rebula8.65 euros at the producer's own shop

The middle Rebula of the cooperative range at 13.5 percent, described by the cellar as elegant and firm-structured with citrus, lemongrass, cedar, quince and a soft vanilla edge.

Tip: Krasno sits a step above Quercus and still comes in under ten euros, which makes it the value pick of the three Rebula tiers.

Krasno Orange ★ 4.3

Rebula, Sauvignonasse, Sivi Pinot10.89 euros at the producer's own shop

The cooperative's amber wine, blended from the three Brda whites at 12.5 percent: Rebula twelve months on skins in wood, Sauvignonasse a month in steel, Sivi Pinot three days in amphora.

Tip: Taste this before spending forty euros on a small-estate amber wine. Each variety is fermented separately and the Rebula does the long maceration on its own.

Peneča rebula ★ 4.3

Rebula7.69 euros at the producer's own shop

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.

Rebula Bagueri ★ 4.5

Rebula14.73 euros at the producer's own shop

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.

Ferdinand Rebula ★ 4.4

Rebula13.50 euros at the cellar shop

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.

Ferdinand Malvazija ★ 4.2

Malvazija13.50 euros at the cellar shop

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.

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