I occasionally taste some really great wines from a specific country that earn a very high rating on the quality-to-price ratio, or QPR, scale and think, “Wow, what a great wine. I’d love to write about this.” But often, there are just not enough wines from one winery or region that qualify to produce a column. About a year ago, I decided to keep track of the best wine values from each country and then write a column when I had enough wines that made the 9.5-or-higher QPR threshold.

For the inaugural “Best Values From” column, we begin with a country where I cut my proverbial wine teeth — Australia.