2021 Adobe Road Sangiacomo Vineyard Roberts Road Pinot Noir, Petaluma Gap, USA
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Wine-Searcher tracks this 2021 Adobe Road Sangiacomo Vineyard Roberts Road Pinot Noir, Petaluma Gap across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $38.72 and the average is $84.12. Our slash is $39.00.
Adobe Road Roberts Road 2021
2021 Adobe Road Sangiacomo Vineyard Roberts Road Pinot Noir, Petaluma Gap, USA
Sangiacomo fruit, from the north edge of the Gap.
Roberts Road sits at the base of Sonoma Mountain, on the far northern edge of the Petaluma Gap, where the wind comes in off the Pacific and does not quit. The Sangiacomo family has farmed that ground for three generations, and Adobe Road has long called the pinot from this gap ethereal.
This 2021 pours a dark ruby. Ripe melon and fresh flowers come first, then cinnamon stick, black tea, and forest floor.
The Gap is in the glass.
Summer 2025 tour of the Adobe Road complex in Petaluma, the winery's own film.
The wind at the north edge
The Sangiacomo family has been tending vines in Petaluma for three generations, and they count Roberts Road among the sites they are known for. It is cool, it is windswept, and it sits at the base of Sonoma Mountain, so the fruit gets time.
Garrett Martin has made the Adobe Road wines since 2015. The notes on this 2021 put Pommard, 115, and 777 in the same ferment, so the vineyard shows up as one wine, and then the wine stays on its lees in barrel for fifteen months.
What does that wind do to pinot when it never really lets up?
Dark ruby, then the spice
Melon and flowers open the glass. Cinnamon stick and black tea take the middle. Forest floor stays on the finish, the savory line that keeps the fruit from turning soft.
Fifteen months on the lees is what rounds the mouth and holds the aroma up. The spice and the freshness are in the same sip, which is the whole point of farming pinot out here.
A racing team that stayed in Petaluma
Kevin Buckler and Debra opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002, after The Racers Group. Four wins at the Daytona 24 Hours, a win at Le Mans, and more than 100 professional victories sit behind the name. Kevin still sits in on the blends. Garrett makes the wine.
The riverfront house at 1 C Street is their Petaluma room on the water, with the tasting bar and the motorsports museum in the same building. This 2021 was already a wine before that room was the point. The bottle is the Gap.
Spring 2025 tour of the Adobe Road complex in Petaluma, the winery's own film.
Duck, a roast bird, or salmon
The melon and the forest floor want a plate with some richness and a bright edge. Duck is the one that sits closest to the glass. Roast chicken keeps the flowers in the conversation. Salmon takes the savory finish and gives it somewhere to land.
Pan-seared duck breast
Sliced duck breast with a cherry pan sauce.
Why it works: The cherry and the dark fruit are already in the same register, and the crisp skin gives the pinot something to lean on.
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Roast chicken with lemon
Roast chicken with lemon and thyme.
Why it works: Lemon and thyme keep the melon and the flowers bright, and the browned skin meets the spice.
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Pan-seared salmon
Salmon with a crisp skin, lemon, and green beans.
Why it works: The fat in the fish meets the forest floor, and the lemon keeps the black tea from sitting heavy.
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Ripe melon, cinnamon stick, and forest floor from Roberts Road.
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