The 2001 sangiovese harvest was a good one, hard to go wrong on anything. If you like bordeaux wine the 2005 is a great vintage and you can score some good value, they are appearing in the stores the last month. Speaking of 05 bordeaux, about a month ago I found some in the store for 7.99 on friday bought 4 and drank 2 and went back to buy 4 more on sunday and it was now 8.99, the guy said welcome to inflation
The 2001 are getting harder to come by so maybe start buying the 2004 chianti, not bad but not as good as 2001.
The Ruffino is great 2001, still have 4 in the cellar, some to try:
Antinori Chianti Classico Peppoli 2004, 90 score under 25 bucks
San Felice Chianti Classico II Grigio Riserva hi 80's score 20 bucks, always good my go to favorite.
Nozzole Chianti Classico Riserva hi 80's under 20 bucks I believe Costco 15 bucks
Da Vinci Chianti Classico hi 80's always good 10 bucks
Marchesi De Frescobaldi Chianto Castiglioni mid 80's 10 bucks
Stefano Farina Chianti Classico Podere della Sala mid 80's under 15 bucks
Masciarelli Montepulciano d' Abruzzo 05 is a score, 90 for 8 bucks
If you don't have good wine stores in your area there is also wine over the internet winex.com or thewineclub.com but depending how far the shipping miles you can add about 2-3 bucks per bottle.