Many people mark the emergence of California cabernet sauvignon from the shadow of the greatest French wines with a challenge staged in Paris in 1976. Pitting the finest California and Bordeaux wines against each other on the 200th anniversary of the founding of the United States seemed like a great publication relations gimmick. But more was accomplished: On French soil and with a distinguished panel of French judges, a California cabernet was judged the winner! (To see the complete details of this 1976 challenge, including the scores awarded and the names of the judges, take a look at the results by clicking here on 1976 Tasting).
In the intervening years, many new cabernet and cabernet-type wines have been created in California, Washington, Australia, Latin America, and even in France. Dennis Foley (foleywine@hotmail.com), the world's premier organizer of wine events, decided to put the new wines to the test. In an organizational demonstration the likes of which will never be seen again, Dennis arranged for 47 of the greatest cabernet-based wines from the 1994 and 1995 vintages to be tasted by 33 of the most celebrated people in the California wine world.
Held on May Day as part of a charity function for Gordon Getty's Imagine Foundation, the tasters gathered promptly at 11:00 am in a lovely room on the top of the St. Francis Hotel. The wines were served entirely blind, and in random order in five flights, accompanied by a multi-course luncheon. All the glasses were left on the table for the judges to ponder throughout the event.
The cast of judges reads like a who's who of California wine celebrities: they included Warren Winiarski (whose Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet had won the 1976 challenge!), Paul Draper (who has presided over winemaking at legendary Ridge Vineyards for 30 years), Ric Forman (who led Sterling to produce some legendary cabernets in the 1970s, but is now at the eponymous Forman Vineyards), Archie McLaren (who presides over the Central Coast's outstanding benefit auction for public radio's station KCBX), Bipin Desai (the University of California physicist who has organized many great wine events) and many others. Those pouring the wine included all-stars like the knowledgeable Master of Wine Larry Stone (of Rubicon) and the perky sommelier Andrea Immer (formerly of Jardiniere).
And the wines, oh the wines. These had to include the great California classics like Caymus Special Selection, Stag's Leap Cask 23, and Ridge Monte Bello, but they also had to include the new generation of pricey all-stars like Araujo Eisele, Dalla Valle Maya, Screaming Eagle, Harlan Estate, and Getty's own Plumpjack Reserve. The challengers had to include the great Bordeaux first growths like Petrus, Cheval-Blanc, Haut-Brion, Margaux, Mouton, Lafite, and Latour, but they also included Le Pin, the new chateau that now produces the priciest wine in all of Bordeaux. From the state of Washington there were Leonetti Cellars, deLille, and Quilceda Creek, while Italy was represented by Sassicaia (the leading super-Tuscan) and Ornellaia, and Spain was repres ented by l'Ermita.
Dennis Foley asked that I take charge of the scoring of these wines and, in due course, all the results will appear in Liquid Assets: the International Guide to Fine Wines.
Three key conclusions may be drawn at this point. First, much to the surprise of both Dennis Foley and myself, the preferences of the judges were, in fact, quite highly correlated. What this means is that the rank order the judges produced would not simply have occurred by chance. Thus, the ordering that follows represents, to some extent, a partial consensus on just what it is that these California wine makers are trying to accomplish in their young wines. Second, among these young wines, all from strong vintages, the Bordeaux wines were severely trounced by the wines from virtually every other region. Chateaux Margaux, the highest ranked Bordeaux wine, managed to squeak in at 23rd place, barely in the top half of the wines being ranked!
Finally, the top wines included some of California's (and Washington's) new, hard-to-find boutique producers, but it also included some of the great classics. Here is the list of the top 10 wines (calculated by converting each judge's point score to a rank and summing the ranks, or "points against"): 1. Clark-Claudon '95 (an unbelievable performance for this newcomer and one of the sleepers of the tasting), 2. Beringer Bancroft Ranch '94 (a merlot), 3. Araujo Eisele '94 (a new producer, Araujo, but a long-established vineyard, Eisele), 4. Stag's Leap Cask 23 '95 (Warren Winiarski's classic wins again!), 5. Caymus Special Selection '95 (another classic), 6. Dalla Valle Maya '94, 7. Leonetti Cellars ' 95 (the Washington super star), 8. Screaming Eagle '95, 9. Arietta '96, and 10. Kefraya Cuvee M '96 (another amazing sleeper-from Lebanon!)
The format in this tasting is flawed and the analysis seems to be incomplete.
The judges are all members of the West Coast wine establishment. Are we supposed to be surprised that they prefer and can distinguish their own style of wine in a blind tasting? I think not.
The lack of maturity of the wines (mostly 1994 and 1995 vintages) works against the French wines. Tasting 1995 Latour now is not materially different than tasting it from the barrel before bottling. No one should even care what a four-year old Latour tastes like. To say it was "severely trounced" by California wines designed to be drunk at release date is absurd! Notice, for example, that a 1997 Chateau Los Boldos (Los who??) finished ahead of Latour, Lafite, Mouton and Petrus.
I am confused by the statistical analysis. It is true that the Kendall W is significant, but doesn't this only mean that the judges are in significant agreement? Are we also to interpret the results as meaning that the entire rank order of 47 wines is significant, i.e., that each wine in the list is significantly better than the wine ranked just below it? This is hard to believe. I would prefer to know Kramer's critical values (5% levels) for the rank sums. Even though this test overstates the number of significant wines, it would still be of interest. In particular, I would like to know if the conclusion "Winiarski wins again" has any merit at all.
WINETASTER ON 05/1/99 WITH 32 JUDGES AND 47 WINES BASED ON RANKS, IDENT=N Copyright (c) 1995-99 Richard E. Quandt
ID Name The judges' overall ranking 1 Quilced Creek Cab. Sauv. '95 21 2 Chateau Latour '95 43 3 l'Ermita, Palacios (Priorat) '95 36 4 Chateau Ceval-Blanc '95 29 5 Ornellaia '94 39 6 Harlan Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 11 7 Gallo Northern Sonoma Cab. Sauv. '94 14 8 Mitchelton Victoria Print Shiraz '95 24 9 Quintessa of Rutherford '95 33 10 Grans Muralles, Torres '96 20 11 Chateau Kefraya Comte de M Cuvee '96 10 12 Dalla Valle Napa Valley Maya '94 6 13 Grace Family Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 18 14 Henry Lagarde Lujan de Cuyo Syrah '95 45 15 Dave Nichol Stag's Leap Hillside Reserve Cab. Sauv.'91 37 16 Chateau Pichon-Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande5 28 17 Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Red Table Wine '95 17 18 Plaisir de Merle Paarl Cab. Sauv.'95 41 19 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Napa Valley Cab. Sauv.,Cask 23 '95 4 20 Arietta Napa Valley Red Table Wine '96 9 21 Sassicaia '94 34 22 Caymus Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 5 23 Chateau Lefite '95 40 24 Chateau Le Pin '95 NR 25 Longridge Hawkes Bay Merlot '95 46 26 Plumpjack Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 13 27 Clark-Clauden Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 1 28 Staglin Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., reserve '95 12 29 Chateau Margaux '95 23 30 Araugo napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Eisele Vineyard '94 3 31 Brant family Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 22 32 Chateau Los Boldos Cab. Sauv. Vieille Vignes '97 32 33 Beringer Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Bancroft Vineyard '94 2 34 Cogin Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Herb Lamb Vineyard '94 27 35 Penfold's Cab. Sauv., Bin 707 '90 25 36 Ridge Vineyards Geyersville Red Table Wine '95 16 37 Screaming Eagle Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 8 38 Martinelli Jackass Hill Zinfandel '94 35 39 Chateau Petrus '95 26 40 De Lille Cellars Chaleur Estate Red Table Wine '94 19 41 Turley Napa Valley Zinfandel, Aida Vineyard '95 42 42 Chateau hout-Bion '95 31 43 Lionetti Cab. Sauv. '95 7 44 Forman Winery Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 15 45 Tarapaca Maipo Valey Zavala Red Table Wine '96 30 46 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild '95 38 47 Veramonte Primus Casablanca Valley Merlot '96 44 Judges Judge-> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Wine 1 37.0 25.0 5.5 30.5 36.5 32.0 29.0 6.5 34.0 14.0 14.0 43.0 3.5 32.0 5.5 32.5 2 41.5 38.0 16.0 20.5 27.5 42.0 31.5 44.0 10.0 40.5 11.0 30.0 22.0 24.0 22.5 40.5 3 40.0 25.0 5.5 30.5 32.5 11.0 43.0 45.0 46.0 40.5 30.0 25.0 39.0 24.0 42.5 8.0 4 44.5 44.0 41.0 7.5 4.5 26.0 26.5 25.5 21.5 30.5 9.0 39.0 30.5 17.0 31.0 15.5 5 32.5 8.0 41.0 25.5 27.5 5.0 33.0 41.5 36.5 40.5 20.0 25.0 35.5 42.5 1.0 1.0 6 7.0 32.5 25.5 20.5 27.5 19.0 26.5 33.0 3.5 30.5 7.0 11.5 2.0 12.0 38.5 37.0 7 32.5 11.5 25.5 7.5 4.5 1.5 35.5 33.0 14.5 14.0 36.0 1.0 9.0 24.0 38.5 15.5 8 37.0 25.0 5.5 25.5 27.5 11.0 23.0 18.5 29.0 14.0 39.0 19.5 22.0 32.0 38.5 32.5 9 32.5 30.5 37.5 44.0 45.5 19.0 44.0 38.0 39.0 30.5 25.5 3.0 13.5 12.0 14.0 8.0 10 3.5 20.5 25.5 4.0 4.5 19.0 29.0 12.0 29.0 40.5 25.5 35.0 9.0 7.0 31.0 40.5 11 26.5 18.0 30.0 12.0 4.5 11.0 5.0 25.5 29.0 30.5 20.0 3.0 5.0 12.0 5.5 32.5 12 12.5 25.0 25.5 2.0 4.5 1.5 14.0 38.0 7.0 30.5 36.0 35.0 17.0 7.0 14.0 28.0 13 19.0 34.5 34.0 39.0 45.5 32.0 31.5 12.0 34.0 30.5 11.0 25.0 37.5 24.0 9.5 23.5 14 44.5 2.0 43.0 25.5 39.0 26.0 45.5 33.0 43.0 14.0 32.0 25.0 42.5 42.5 9.5 23.5 15 26.5 18.0 44.0 39.0 42.0 42.0 45.5 18.5 29.0 30.5 20.0 11.5 35.5 46.0 38.5 46.0 16 26.5 14.5 41.0 20.5 21.0 36.5 9.0 38.0 34.0 40.5 25.5 7.0 30.5 24.0 31.0 8.0 17 7.0 5.0 34.0 2.0 1.0 5.0 23.0 12.0 21.5 2.5 32.0 43.0 34.0 17.0 17.5 15.5 18 19.0 34.5 34.0 39.0 45.5 32.0 39.5 41.5 39.0 14.0 32.0 45.0 17.0 24.0 31.0 40.5 19 32.5 2.0 9.5 7.5 21.0 15.0 45.5 25.5 21.5 14.0 7.0 7.0 17.0 2.5 9.5 8.0 20 12.5 16.0 5.5 12.0 13.0 11.0 23.0 25.5 29.0 14.0 20.0 19.5 22.0 17.0 31.0 15.5 21 43.0 25.0 36.0 20.5 21.0 39.5 35.5 6.5 44.0 30.5 42.5 35.0 30.5 32.0 5.5 8.0 22 12.5 42.5 16.0 39.0 13.0 32.0 12.0 3.0 14.5 14.0 36.5 22.5 15.5 5.5 21.5 6.0 23 19.0 8.0 39.0 42.5 34.5 26.0 10.0 6.5 21.5 30.5 36.0 16.5 26.5 24.0 2.5 15.5 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 46.0 39.5 37.5 35.0 36.5 44.0 39.5 41.5 41.5 30.5 25.5 14.5 42.5 39.5 5.5 15.5 26 32.5 45.0 16.0 30.5 17.0 5.0 41.5 33.0 7.0 14.0 16.5 7.0 9.0 24.0 31.0 23.5 27 3.5 5.0 9.5 7.5 4.5 5.0 41.5 18.5 1.5 2.5 14.0 11.5 1.0 12.0 31.0 28.0 28 19.0 18.0 16.0 25.5 31.0 11.0 17.0 12.0 21.5 14.0 14.0 7.0 3.5 39.5 14.0 23.5 29 19.0 41.0 25.5 39.0 39.0 32.0 38.0 25.5 29.0 14.0 25.5 16.5 17.0 12.0 22.5 3.5 30 1.0 11.5 1.0 7.5 13.0 19.0 29.0 33.0 1.5 14.0 4.0 14.5 9.0 4.5 31.0 15.5 31 12.5 5.0 31.5 30.5 21.0 26.0 17.0 25.5 14.5 14.0 42.5 30.0 25.0 2.5 22.5 40.5 32 41.5 32.5 16.0 45.0 42.0 36.5 17.0 1.5 41.5 14.0 42.5 35.0 22.0 32.0 22.5 45.0 33 7.0 11.5 25.5 7.5 13.0 19.0 12.0 4.0 3.5 24.5 40.0 3.0 17.0 24.0 14.0 3.5 34 22.5 46.0 45.5 42.5 34.5 36.5 23.0 12.0 14.5 24.5 46.0 46.0 42.5 12.0 2.5 15.5 35 12.5 34.5 2.0 39.0 39.0 11.0 20.0 33.0 10.0 14.0 45.0 43.0 26.5 7.0 38.5 32.5 36 26.5 11.5 25.5 35.0 21.0 19.0 23.0 18.5 21.5 2.5 42.5 35.0 42.5 36.5 9.5 3.5 37 3.5 14.5 16.0 15.5 8.5 5.0 7.5 18.5 5.0 40.5 1.0 11.5 9.0 1.0 22.5 32.5 38 12.5 5.0 34.0 30.5 32.5 26.0 35.5 12.0 39.0 14.0 36.0 25.0 42.5 45.0 38.5 15.5 39 22.5 20.5 5.5 15.5 13.0 46.0 5.0 12.0 29.0 14.0 20.0 19.5 30.5 24.0 45.0 28.0 40 3.5 42.5 16.0 15.5 21.0 42.0 17.0 18.5 21.5 46.0 25.5 25.0 37.5 4.5 22.5 23.5 41 39.0 30.5 45.5 30.5 42.0 36.5 35.5 6.5 10.0 40.5 36.0 40.5 42.5 36.5 46.0 44.0 42 26.5 25.0 16.0 12.0 8.5 45.0 5.0 25.5 14.5 40.5 4.0 30.0 22.0 42.5 17.5 43.0 43 26.5 29.0 16.0 2.0 13.0 26.0 5.0 1.5 14.5 2.5 29.0 35.0 30.5 24.0 31.0 23.5 44 12.5 2.0 16.0 20.5 27.5 11.0 12.0 25.5 7.0 14.0 16.5 40.5 9.0 12.0 22.5 32.5 45 12.5 36.5 5.5 35.0 21.0 26.0 17.0 41.5 36.5 14.0 4.0 19.5 30.5 36.5 14.0 3.5 46 37.0 39.5 31.5 15.5 27.5 19.0 2.5 33.0 21.5 40.5 11.0 25.0 13.5 32.0 44.0 37.0 47 19.0 36.5 25.5 46.0 44.0 39.5 1.0 . 45.0 40.5 7.0 35.0 46.0 42.5 42.5 37.0 Judge-> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 Wine 1 9.5 14.0 27.0 18.5 24.5 4.5 29.5 4.5 32.0 41.5 20.0 41.5 8.5 18.5 40.5 31.0 2 41.0 21.5 42.5 35.0 46.0 27.0 35.5 18.5 25.0 35.5 28.0 5.0 42.0 40.5 36.5 25.0 3 32.5 38.5 42.5 32.5 20.0 29.0 5.5 11.0 5.5 5.5 46.0 45.0 14.0 40.5 10.5 42.0 4 3.0 44.5 34.0 30.5 17.0 31.0 17.5 24.5 25.0 31.5 10.0 36.5 11.5 24.0 40.5 31.0 5 26.0 38.5 27.0 40.5 41.5 29.0 24.5 35.0 44.0 44.5 41.0 36.5 30.0 44.0 10.5 3.0 6 21.5 5.0 1.0 12.5 12.0 17.5 2.0 4.5 15.5 35.5 10.0 29.0 18.5 18.5 2.5 31.0 7 9.5 14.0 20.0 3.5 3.5 23.0 11.5 24.5 46.0 38.5 20.0 22.5 18.5 24.0 19.0 46.0 8 5.5 30.5 27.0 38.0 40.0 34.5 21.5 30.5 10.5 18.0 41.0 29.0 18.5 6.5 2.5 35.5 9 44.0 30.5 20.0 40.5 37.5 11.0 29.5 35.0 19.5 31.5 10.0 29.0 21.0 29.0 45.0 20.0 10 21.5 9.5 42.5 3.5 29.5 37.5 5.5 18.5 25.0 41.5 33.5 41.5 28.0 13.5 32.0 9.5 11 5.5 38.5 3.5 25.5 21.5 34.5 35.5 11.0 25.0 27.5 4.0 1.5 14.0 1.5 45.0 5.5 12 32.5 21.5 2.0 1.5 12.0 15.0 17.5 4.5 10.5 22.5 2.0 29.0 4.5 4.0 19.0 12.0 13 17.5 14.0 3.5 18.5 29.5 15.0 44.5 24.5 5.5 35.5 41.0 36.5 14.0 29.0 2.5 7.5 14 32.5 38.5 27.0 12.5 37.5 37.5 42.5 35.0 38.5 18.0 33.5 45.0 44.0 24.0 10.5 20.0 15 38.0 21.5 20.0 36.5 39.0 44.0 41.0 15.0 15.5 5.5 20.0 19.0 6.5 45.0 14.0 7.5 16 32.5 5.0 13.5 36.5 12.0 45.0 5.5 24.5 43.0 46.0 28.0 19.0 22.5 32.5 32.0 20.0 17 26.0 21.5 31.0 8.5 7.5 15.0 35.5 11.0 38.5 22.5 20.0 29.0 29.0 29.0 36.5 38.0 18 44.0 38.5 42.5 25.5 24.5 6.5 11.5 45.5 25.0 1.5 33.5 5.0 32.0 46.0 2.5 35.5 19 17.5 21.5 10.5 5.5 7.5 6.5 29.5 30.5 15.5 27.5 20.0 36.5 4.5 6.5 32.0 15.5 20 9.5 2.0 13.5 12.5 44.0 8.0 24.5 35.0 10.5 14.5 10.0 29.0 8.5 24.0 14.0 5.5 21 32.5 38.5 20.0 34.0 12.0 21.0 24.5 38.0 32.0 22.5 33.5 15.5 39.0 39.0 36.5 3.0 22 5.5 21.5 6.0 5.5 12.0 17.5 11.5 11.0 15.5 10.5 4.0 8.5 16.0 35.5 19.0 12.0 23 38.0 30.5 20.0 44.5 43.0 37.5 35.5 43.5 25.0 35.5 41.0 45.0 46.0 43.0 27.5 25.0 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 44.0 44.5 38.0 46.0 29.5 4.5 46.0 41.5 38.5 44.5 10.0 24.0 45.0 18.5 40.5 42.0 26 13.5 30.5 34.0 25.5 5.0 2.0 11.5 4.5 5.5 22.5 10.0 8.5 22.5 9.5 7.0 20.0 27 13.5 14.0 36.0 7.0 1.0 11.0 17.5 1.5 19.5 5.5 1.0 19.0 18.5 9.5 19.0 25.0 28 32.5 5.0 13.5 12.5 17.0 1.0 17.5 7.5 32.0 22.5 28.0 19.0 39.0 24.0 19.0 3.0 29 41.0 30.5 20.0 40.5 24.5 3.0 5.5 1.5 10.5 5.5 41.0 41.5 42.0 42.0 7.0 9.5 30 17.5 5.0 8.5 18.5 12.0 11.0 1.0 15.0 25.0 38.5 20.0 19.0 32.0 4.0 32.0 20.0 31 13.5 9.5 8.5 30.5 27.0 25.5 21.5 41.5 5.5 41.5 41.0 5.0 25.5 29.0 27.5 38.0 32 32.5 21.5 20.0 22.5 24.5 42.5 5.5 43.5 1.0 14.5 20.0 1.5 34.5 29.0 45.0 42.0 33 5.5 1.0 6.0 8.5 3.5 37.5 5.5 18.5 5.5 27.5 20.0 1.0 3.0 4.0 40.5 42.0 34 9.5 30.5 38.0 18.5 21.5 40.5 42.5 15.0 2.0 5.5 28.0 12.0 6.5 35.5 5.0 45.0 35 26.0 21.5 42.5 25.5 29.5 23.0 17.5 24.5 15.5 10.5 4.0 36.5 36.5 18.5 14.0 42.0 36 21.5 9.5 20.0 12.5 2.0 29.0 29.5 18.5 32.0 18.0 10.0 5.0 1.5 32.5 19.0 25.0 37 26.0 21.5 6.0 18.5 32.5 19.0 17.5 11.0 38.5 27.5 33.5 29.0 34.5 9.5 7.0 1.0 38 26.0 38.5 42.5 1.5 35.0 46.0 29.5 39.5 45.0 14.5 28.0 22.5 25.5 18.5 32.0 15.5 39 46.0 9.5 13.5 32.5 35.0 32.5 39.5 30.5 32.0 31.5 33.5 15.5 25.5 13.5 19.0 15.5 40 13.5 30.5 31.0 28.5 12.0 40.5 11.5 30.5 25.0 10.5 41.0 12.0 11.5 9.5 24.0 12.0 41 2.0 44.5 27.0 12.5 45.0 42.5 24.5 45.5 38.5 1.5 20.0 12.0 39.0 13.5 27.5 38.0 42 17.5 30.5 34.0 18.5 19.0 32.5 35.5 24.5 38.5 31.5 20.0 29.0 42.0 35.5 24.0 31.0 43 1.0 38.5 20.0 28.5 6.0 11.0 11.5 7.5 5.5 5.5 20.0 5.0 1.5 1.5 27.5 31.0 44 32.5 21.5 10.5 22.5 41.5 23.0 29.5 24.5 15.5 14.5 10.0 29.0 10.0 38.0 36.5 15.5 45 21.5 44.5 38.0 44.5 35.0 25.5 44.5 24.5 25.0 22.5 10.0 41.5 36.5 35.5 10.5 31.0 46 38.0 5.0 31.0 43.0 17.0 20.0 35.5 35.0 38.5 41.5 41.0 36.5 25.5 18.5 43.0 25.0 47 41.0 14.0 46.0 40.5 32.5 11.0 39.5 39.5 38.5 10.5 41.0 12.0 32.0 13.5 24.0 31.0 Wine Ranksum 1 Quilced Creek Cab. Sauv. '95 746.0 2 Chateau Latour '95 966.0 3 l'Ermita, Palacios (Priorat) '95 908.0 4 Chateau Ceval-Blanc '95 825.5 5 Ornellaia '94 931.5 6 Harlan Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 570.0 7 Gallo Northern Sonoma Cab. Sauv. '94 648.0 8 Mitchelton Victoria Print Shiraz '95 788.5 9 Quintessa of Rutherford '95 889.5 10 Grans Muralles, Torres '96 728.0 11 Chateau Kefraya Comte de M Cuvee '96 569.5 12 Dalla Valle Napa Valley Maya '94 507.5 13 Grace Family Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 699.0 14 Henry Lagarde Lujan de Cuyo Syrah '95 987.0 15 Dave Nichol Stag's Leap Hillside Reserve Cab. Sauv.'91 920.5 16 Chateau Pichon-Longueville, Comtesse de Lalande5 825.0 17 Ridge Vineyards Monte Bello Red Table Wine '95 670.5 18 Plaisir de Merle Paarl Cab. Sauv.'95 947.0 19 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Napa Valley Cab. Sauv.,Cask 23 '95 494.0 20 Arietta Napa Valley Red Table Wine '96 551.5 21 Sassicaia '94 896.5 22 Caymus Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 502.5 23 Chateau Lefite '95 939.0 24 Chateau Le Pin '95 . 25 Longridge Hawkes Bay Merlot '95 1091.5 26 Plumpjack Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 584.5 27 Clark-Clauden Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 435.0 28 Staglin Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., reserve '95 579.5 29 Chateau Margaux '95 764.5 30 Araugo napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Eisele Vineyard '94 488.0 31 Brant family Vineyard Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 751.0 32 Chateau Los Boldos Cab. Sauv. Vieille Vignes '97 886.5 33 Beringer Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Bancroft Vineyard '94 469.5 34 Cogin Napa Valley Cab. Sauv., Herb Lamb Vineyard '94 821.5 35 Penfold's Cab. Sauv., Bin 707 '90 795.0 36 Ridge Vineyards Geyersville Red Table Wine '95 659.0 37 Screaming Eagle Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '95 544.5 38 Martinelli Jackass Hill Zinfandel '94 903.5 39 Chateau Petrus '95 800.5 40 De Lille Cellars Chaleur Estate Red Table Wine '94 725.5 41 Turley Napa Valley Zinfandel, Aida Vineyard '95 960.5 42 Chateau hout-Bion '95 848.0 43 Lionetti Cab. Sauv. '95 530.5 44 Forman Winery Napa Valley Cab. Sauv. '94 655.5 45 Tarapaca Maipo Valey Zavala Red Table Wine '96 844.0 46 Chateau Mouton-Rothschild '95 924.0 47 Veramonte Primus Casablanca Valley Merlot '96 973.5 Kendall's W: Variable | Obs Value ---------+---------------------- wcorr | 47 .1623403 w | 47 .1644993 'w' is Kendall's W without accounting for tied rankings. 'wcorr' is Kendall's W with corrections for tied rankings. Because there are numerous observations, wcorr is converted to a chi-sqrd variable: .1653403*32*45=233.77 (with 45 degrees of freedom) Probablity that the rankings are independent of each other is smaller than .005. Friedman's chi-sqrd value: Variable | Obs Value ---------+---------------------- f | 47 222.2959 Probability of this happening by chance is smaller than .005.View Report 35, a subsequent "monster" tasting
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