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There are no Babić bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

There are no Bombino Bianco bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

There are no Brachetto bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

If you were willing to raise the maximum price to $25, there would also be these:

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 92:
Calabretta Carricante   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 91:
Tornatore “Pietrarizzo” Etna Bianco   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 90:
Alta Mora Etna Bianco   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Tascante “Buonora” Etna Bianco   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Pietradolce Etna Bianco   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Villagrande Etna Bianco Superiore   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

While there are no Castelao bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria, one comes close (only a few offers below $20):

Or, if we relax the maximum price to $25, we also get:

OAKED CHARDONNAYS:

UNOAKED CHARDONNAYS:
(This list includes some lightly oaked specimens, marked with an * asterisk.)

There are no Croatina bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we get:

Or, if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we get:

There are no Dornfelder bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “availability” criterion to one retail offer—but that from a major national retailer—we get:

BENEVENTANA FALANGHINAS:

FLEGREA FALANGHINAS:

There are no Fetească Regală bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “score” criterion to 87 minimum, we get:

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 87:
Recas Castle “Huniade” Fetească Regală   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Gitana Winery “Autograf” Fetească Regală   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

There are no Freisa bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “price” criterion to $25 maximum, we get:

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 92:
Crotin Freisa d’Asti    [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine here and (two CT entries) also here]

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 90:
Cantine Valpane “Canone Inverso” Monferrato Freisa   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

There are no Gros Manseng bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “score” criterion to 87 minimum, we get:

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 88:
Domaine du Cinquau Sec   [sorry, no Cellar Tracker file for this particular Domaine du Cinquau Sec cuvée—they have many others, with Cellar Tracker files, but not this one…]

  Wines with a critics’ consensus score of 87:
Clos Lapeyre “Lapeyre” Sec   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Domaine des Cassagnoles Gros Manseng Selection   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]
Domaine des Cassagnoles Gros Manseng Reserve Selection   [or search Cellar Tracker for this wine]

There are no Lagrein bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

There are no Limnio bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “score” criterion to 88 minimum, we get:

Or, if we relax the “price” criterion to $25 maximum, we get:

There are no Malvasia bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

If the “score” criterion is lowered to 88 minimum, one also gets:

There are no Petit Manseng bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if one relaxes the “score” and “price” criteria a bit, to score 88 minimum and price $25 maximum, one gets:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we find:

Or, if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

There are no Pinot Meunier bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if one lowers the “score” criterion to 87 minimum, one finds:

If we are willing to look at a wine not yet critic-rated, we find:

But, if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we also find:

Or, if we instead relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we find:

There are no Rkatsiteli bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we find:

Or, if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

But, if we relax the price criterion to $25 minimum, we also find:

(The “crisp/dry” and “rich/fruity” designations are as per Wine Searcher’s categorizations.)

STYLE=RICH/FRUITY:

STYLE=CRISP/DRY:

If we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

There are also almost two dozen 89-point SBs, but the above list should suffice.

There are no Savatiano bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the “score” criterion to 88 minimum, we get:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

There are no Schioppettino bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

Or, if we instead relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we also find:

But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we also find:

Or if we instead relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

There are no Teroldego bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the price criterion to a maximum of $25, we get:

There are no Timorasso bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we get:

Regrettably, there are no Traminer bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. If one wants to stretch the criteria (score 88, price under $25) just to sample a specimen, there is:

There are no Valdiguié bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we find:

Or, if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we also find:

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

(All bottlings listed are Vernaccia di San Gimignano.)

But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

But if we relax the score criterion to 88 minimum, we also find:

Or, if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we also find:

There are no Zierfandler bottlings that meet our quality/price/availability criteria. But if we relax the price criterion to $25 maximum, we find: