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 Recent Tasting Results

• Sep. 29, ‘07 -Tasting Results
• Sep. 15, ‘07 -Tasting Results
• Tasting Results from 2006 Zinfandel tasting
• Tasting Results from 2004 Syrah tasting

Results from the September 29th, 2007, Chateau Garage tasting — Chianti — held at the San Jose State/UC Davis tailgate.

The general consensus was that all of the wines were pretty good.  Unfortunately, not all tasters ranked all wines so the scoring is a bit skewed by having to use the next lower score for all wines not tasted for ballots that did not rate all wines.  The ranking gives a general trend and the Il Fornaio wine definitely scored above the others.  Note that the scoring was quite close below that.

-- Marc Cohen and Sam Grinels

Place Score Year Wine Price 1 21 2004 Il Fornaio Chianti Classico (Private Label) 29.00 2 31 2003 Fattoria Rodano Chianti Classico 17.00 3 32 2001 Querceto Chianti Classico 20.00 4 37 2004 Fattoria di Basciano Chianti Rufina 12.00 5 38 2002 Ruffino Riserva Ducale Chianti Classico 24.00 6 41 2003 Ruffino Riserva Ducale Oro Chianti Classico 28.00 7 42 2006 Aquila d’Oro Chianti   8.00 8 49 2005 Ruffino Chianti   9.00