Adobe Road house spotlight
Kevin Buckler's Petaluma house, official winery tour of the new riverfront complex, the cellar behind this 2021 66 white.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2021 Adobe Road 66 The Legacy Continues California across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $54.92 and the average is $64.30. Our slash is $55.00.
2021 Adobe Road 66 The Legacy Continues California, USA
Kevin Buckler's Porsche 66 white, 66 percent Chardonnay with Marsanne and Viognier, Jeb Dunnuck 92, a 2021 you can open at fifty-five dollars.
The 2021 Adobe Road 66 is 66 percent Chardonnay, 19 percent Marsanne, and the rest Viognier: candied green apple, petrol, beeswax, ripe peach, pear, and marzipan, now $55.
A race-number white that still drinks like a serious blend
Kevin Buckler drove 66 at Daytona and Le Mans. Derek DeBoer carries the number now. The wine is 66 percent Chardonnay, 19 percent Marsanne, the rest Viognier, a California white with petrol, beeswax, and stone fruit instead of a grassy costume. Jeb Dunnuck 92. James Suckling 90. Garrett Martin makes it in Petaluma. This is the bottle that argues a Racing Series white can still be a table wine at fifty-five dollars.
The house
Kevin and Debra Buckler opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Racing is the brand. Garrett Martin makes the wines.
The wine
66% Chardonnay, 19% Marsanne, rest Viognier. Petrol, beeswax, peach, pear, marzipan.
The scores
Jeb Dunnuck 92. James Suckling 90. A white blend, not a simple Chardonnay.
The drinker
Serve 48 to 52 F. No long decant. Roast chicken or scallops.
Green apple and petrol, then peach, beeswax, and marzipan
The 2021 66 opens on candied green apple, petrol, and beeswax, then ripe peach, pear, and marzipan. Honeysuckle, coriander, clove, and toasty oak sit behind the fruit. Marsanne is why it feels waxy. Viognier is why it smells like peach. Chardonnay is the spine.
A California white year with ripeness and a petrol, beeswax line from Marsanne. The 2021 still drinks as a blend, not as oak Chardonnay in a race jacket.
Candied green apple, petrol, beeswax, peach, pear, marzipan, honeysuckle.
Chardonnay spine, Marsanne wax, Viognier perfume, toasty oak.
Clove, coriander, toast. Serve 48 to 52 F. No long decant.
A Chardonnay majority, then Rhone whites for wax and perfume
Garrett Martin builds 66 as 66 percent Chardonnay, 19 percent Marsanne, the rest Viognier. The number is the race car. The blend is the wine: Chardonnay for line, Marsanne for beeswax and petrol, Viognier for peach. Petaluma is the cellar. The fruit is California.
The Racing Series wears metal ideas on the bottle. 66 is the white in that set, named for Porsche 66.
Serve 48 to 52 F. Roast chicken is the weeknight plate.
A racer who bottles white as seriously as Cabernet
Buckler raced at Daytona and Le Mans, then opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Number 66 is the car. This wine is the white that carries it.
Adobe Road is a Petaluma house with Napa and Sonoma fruit. The Racing Series wines wear metal labels. The vineyard wines wear the site.
Kevin Buckler drove 66. Derek DeBoer carries the number now. The Legacy Continues is the line on the glass.
Garrett Martin is the winemaker. The 2021 is Chardonnay, Marsanne, and Viognier in that order.
Roast chicken, then scallops
A waxy California white wants roast bird and browned butter. Chicken takes the petrol and apple. Scallops take the peach.
Two plates. One roast chicken. One pan of scallops.
Serve 48 to 52 F. No long decant.
Roast chicken
High-heat roast, lemon, thyme, garlic.
Why it works: Roast fat and lemon echo citrus while acidity cuts the skin.
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Pan-seared scallops
Hard brown crust, lemon butter.
Why it works: Sweet scallop and browned butter match stone fruit.
View Recipe for pan-seared scallops (opens in a new tab)Put 66 in the cart
Jeb Dunnuck 92, Porsche 66, Chardonnay with Marsanne and Viognier. Fifty-five dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the Racing Series white with beeswax and peach, not a grassy supermarket bottle.
