THERE ARE SOME cellars whose reputations hinge on a single wine. Some have just one flagship. Nothing wrong with that. Actually, there are far too many producers in the Cape with far too many wines in their portfolio. More specialists please. However, you’ve gotta hand it to those wineries that consistently offer more than one of the country’s very best, regardless of price, as well as some of the best-value wines below the R100 a bottle mark, or not much above. It’s even more impressive when they compete in various categories.

This was the subject broached in a couple of articles recently published by Independent Media’s Personal Finance magazine – see below, with the latest prices (following the industry hikes in March) carried here.