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Attention SJSU Corner Cypress Wine Tasters.

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Welcome to ChateauGarage.com, a Web site by amateur winemakers dedicated to the amateur winemaker, amateur wine drinker, amateur wine taster, amateur wine buyer, and … did I say amateur wine drinker?

2007 SJSU/New Mexico Tasting

Results from this year’s Pinot Noir tasting will be posted soon.

2007 SJSU/Hawaii Tasting

Results from this year’s Chardonnay tasting have been posted here.

2007 SJSU/UC Davis Tasting

Results from this year’s Chianti tasting have been posted here.

2007 SJSU/Stanford Tasting

Results from this year’s South American Cabernet tasting have been posted here.

 2006 USC/Stanford Tasting

 Results from last year’s Zinfandel tasting have been posted here.

In other words, the fun associated with wine making, evaluation and consumption…all on an amateur level, of course!

Having a little fun, with wine, is a main reason for this site. The key word here is “fun.”  Fun, as in no wine snobbery here.  Some of the best advice we ever heard about enjoying wine is this:

“Pop the cork and lap it up!”

These are the words of Roy Brady, an editor of Wine World  magazine, taken from an interview in 1973 with one of Chateau Garage’s wine makers as part of a college course at USC.

Tasting Notes from a Recent Napa/Sonoma Trip

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Marc’s Page

Check here for Marc’s  latest tasting notes and ruminations.


Three of the Chateau Garage winemakers (Marc, Tony and Sam) hit the trail—the Silverado Trail—and Napa/Sonoma on their now annual winetasting excursion. Click here to see Marc’s notes from the trip.

Wine Discovered in Gold Country!
When we were up at our Weimar location recently a couple of us took the opportunity to visit a few wineries in the Placerville area.  We’ll be putting our tasting notes in the “Tasting Notes” section shortly. But, suffice it to say, we were very favorably impressed with the wines we tasted and the wineries. If you find yourself in the Placerville area be sure and check out the local wine fare. For your convenience, here are links to Web sites that show the wineries in the Placerville area:  http://www.visit-eldorado.com/wineries.html and http://www.eldoradowines.org/edwa.htm

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