This wine has a nice lightly golden color and a tropical nose of melon, citrus, and papaya. Pears, lemon, and melon are present on the creamy palate. The citrus brings a biting acidity at times, but this is an interesting wine. This is nice, but certainly not my favorite Diamond T Cuvee. I believe I liked the 2001 Talbott Sleepy Hollow Chardonnay that I had a few weeks ago a little more. 88 pts.

I love Talbott's Chardonnays, but I finsh them by their fourth birthday.

Me too. The problem is, I think they wait too long to release their wines (at least to my part of the country). The 2000 Diamond T and 2001 Sleepy Hollow are current releases here.

Do you get any of the cuvee Cynthia or cuvee Audry back there (east coast)?

None at all. I blew it big time when I was in Monterey. The wine shop accross the street from the Marriott had both of these at good prices, and I kept saying, "Yeah, I'll have to pick up a few of these before I leave." I totally forgot. Now I'm kicking myself. What do you think of the Cynthia and the Audrey?

I've never seen them.

They are the unfiltered models; The Cynthia (Robb's wife) is the Sleepy Hollow grapes and the Audrey (Robb's mother-in-law) is from Diamond T. IMO the stuff is considerably more yummy than the "regular" bottlings.

I'm pretty sure you could get some shipped by calling their tasting room in Carmel Valley.

I wouldn't go overboard on the stuff. It's probably more money than say and Aubert and it really isn't anywhere the same quality. It's just a very good label that you may want to put a knotch in your cellar for drinking one.

I should say that 10-15 years ago it was the only Chardonnay we would buy but we've come a long way baby as have CA Chardonnays also.