• Details (what to bring, etc.)
• Potluck assignments
• Tailgate/parking location map
• How to prepare a bottle for a blind tasting
• Tasting Results from 2006 Zinfandel tasting
• Tasting Results from 2004 Syrah tasting

Results from the 9/25/04 massive Syrah tasting at Stanford.

Within a flight, the lower the score the better the ranking. However, because different numbers of tasters participated in each flight, you cannot compare the score across flights.

Overall, the middle scores all seem to be fairly close, but there appear to be clear winners and clear losers in each flight. It is also interesting to look at the duplicate entries (indicated with the notation dup below). The group was fairly consistent in giving the same wine similar rankings.

Flight 1 (17 tasters)

Rank Score Avg Place Year Winery 1 51 3.00 dup0 2002 Rock Rabbit 2 60 3.52   2002 Laughing Magpie (Australia) 3 62 3.64 dup1 2002 Marc Cellars 4 63 3.71 dup1 2002 Marc Cellars 5 65 3.82 dup1 2002 Marc Cellars 6 67 3.94   2001 Clos La Chance 7 78 4.59   2001 Columbia Winery 8 89 5.23   2001 Claiborne & Churchill

Flight 2 (15 tasters)

Rank Score Avg Place Year Winery 1-2 53 3.53 dup0 2002 Rock Rabbit 1-2 53 3.53   2000 Fetzer Reserve 3 54 3.60   2001 Echelon 4 60 4.00 dup2 2002 Edna Valley 5 68 4.53   2002 Purple Moon 6-7 81 5.40 dup2 2002 Edna Valley 6-7 81 5.40   1998 Chateau Julian 8 91 6.07   2002 Penfolds Koonunga Hill (Aus.)

Flight 3 (14 tasters)

Rank Score Avg Place Year Winery 1 46 3.29   2002 Outback Chase (Australia) 2 51 3.64   2001 Indian Springs 3 53 3.78 dup3 2001 Elk Cove (Oregon) 4 56 4.00 dup4 2001 Sebastopol Vineyards 5 58 4.14 dup3 2001 Elk Cove (Oregon) 6 59 4.21 dup4 2001 Sebastopol Vineyards 7 61 4.36   2002 Rosemount (Australia) 8 76 5.43   2002 Cameron Hughes Lot 1

Flight 4 (8 tasters)

Rank Score Avg Place Year Winery 1 22 3.75   2002 Penfolds Kalima Bin 2 (Aus.) 2 27 3.38   1999 Indian Springs 3 28 3.50   2002 Piping Shrike (Australia) 4-5 30 3.75   2001 Smoking Loon 4-5 30 3.75   2002 Nugan Family 6 37 4.63   2001 Perry Creek 7 50 6.25   2001 Jacob’s Creek (Australia)