If you haven't gone to Napa and tried Falcor Chardonnay, make it a mission of your next trip there. My friends and I have discovered the wonder that is high end Carneros Chardonnay - wonderfully complex, somewhat spicy, and very full bodied - normally terms not associated with Chardonnays but rather the big Burgundies and Bordeaux varieties.
1997 Falcor Chardonnay was the first wine that revealed a potential strong interest in wine with me, and this was some 3 plus years ago. The 2002 is as ample and complex as I recall the 1997 being, but with so much time in between tastings, I cannot be too certain. Nonetheless, it does not matter, as the 2002 was a whole new world of Chardonnay compared to the fine examples we tasted at Rombauer, Babcock, and Robert Stemmler. Each of these Chardonnays has redeeming qualities to it, but something about the true Carneros Chardonnays like the Falcor just set it apart.
No great details about the tasting this time, just a strong recommendation to go out and find some Falcor Chardonnay - 2002 is a great year - and enjoy it.
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