These are South Africa’s Best Value Chardonnays according to Wine.co.za and a three-person panel consisting of Joanne Gibson (freelance wine journalist and Platter’s taster, with a WSET Level 4 Diploma in Wines & Spirits), Ndaba Dube (Blaauwberg Beach Hotel F&B manager, a graduate of the Michael Fridjhon Wine Judging Academy) and Jeanri-Tine van Zyl (owner/creative director of Feed that Bird Communication Consultants, a first-in-class graduate of the Michael Fridjhon Wine Judging Academy).
The inaugural Best Value Chardonnay Tasting aimed at finding the best examples of this variety costing between R60 and R100 a bottle.
The top five Best Value Chardonnay wines were as follows:
1. Fat Bastard 2018 – 90/100
2. Cape Town Wine Co. 2018 – 88/100
2. De Krans Wild Ferment Unwooded 2018 – 88/100
2. Laibach The Ladybird 2018 (Woolworths) – 88/100
5. Slanghoek Private Selection 2019 – 87/100
Scoring of these “Best Value Chardonnays” was done according to the 100-point quality scale, with the top-scoring wines going through to the second round of blind tasting and discussion with Christian Eedes (Winemag.co.za editor and roving chair).
In other words, the final results do not merely reflect arithmetic averaging.
