Adobe Road house spotlight
Official Adobe Road Winery tour of Kevin Buckler's Petaluma riverfront house. This 2022 Chardonnay is the earlier Sangiacomo Roberts Road white, not the 2023.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2022 Adobe Road Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $60.28 and the average is $66.98. Our slash is $61.00.
2022 Adobe Road Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap, USA
The 2022 Sangiacomo Roberts Road Chardonnay, Jeb Dunnuck 89 to 91 and Wine Spectator 89, a Petaluma Gap white you can open at sixty-one dollars.
The 2022 Roberts Road Chardonnay is ripe pear, cinnamon, baking spice, stone fruit, a creamy mid-palate, and bright acid from Sangiacomo's windswept block, now $61.
The scored 2022 from the same named road
This is the 2022 Roberts Road Chardonnay, not the 2023. Bright gold. Peaches, nectarines, toast, almond, a long finish. Jeb Dunnuck 89 to 91. Wine Spectator 89. Windswept Sangiacomo fruit at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Sixty-one dollars.
The house
Kevin and Debra Buckler opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Garrett Martin makes the wines.
The wine
Sangiacomo Roberts Road Chardonnay, 2022. Ripe pear, baking spice, creamy mid-palate, bright acid.
The scores
Jeb Dunnuck 89 to 91. Wine Spectator 89. Named-road Petaluma Gap Chardonnay.
The drinker
Pear and toast first. Serve near 50 F. No long decant. Roast chicken or scallops.
Ripe pear and cinnamon, then peach, toast, and almond
The 2022 pours bright gold: ripe pear, cinnamon, baking spice, stone fruit, peaches, nectarines, toast, almond. Creamy mid-palate, bright acid, a long finish. A year more in bottle than the 2023, so the spice is already in the glass.
A California white year that gave Roberts Road pear, spice, and enough acid to stay lifted. This 2022 is open now.
Ripe pear, cinnamon, baking spice, stone fruit, peach, nectarine, toast, almond.
Creamy mid-palate, bright acid, a touch of oak.
Toast, almond, length. Serve near 50 F. No long decant.
Sangiacomo wind, then a creamy California line
Roberts Road is a windswept Sangiacomo block at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Garrett Martin bottled the 2022 as a Gap Chardonnay with pear, spice, and a creamy mid-palate. Oak shows as toast and almond. Acid keeps it from turning heavy.
This is the 2022. The 2023 is the current vintage on a separate listing.
Serve near 50 F. Roast chicken or scallops.
Three generations of Sangiacomo, a Petaluma cellar
The Gap is why Buckler stayed in Petaluma. Roberts Road is why this white has a vineyard name.
Adobe Road is a Petaluma house with Napa and Sonoma fruit. Kevin and Debra Buckler opened it in 2002.
Sangiacomo has farmed Petaluma for three generations. Roberts Road sits at the base of Sonoma Mountain.
The 2022 is the scored white from that block. The 2023 is the current vintage next to it.
Roast chicken, then scallops
Ripe pear Chardonnay wants roast bird and browned butter on scallops. Cinnamon in the wine meets the skin. Acid cuts the cream.
Two plates. One roast chicken. One pan of scallops. Both can take 2022 Roberts Road Chardonnay.
Serve near 50 F. No long decant. A cold glass keeps pear and spice in front.
Roast Chicken
High-heat roast, lemon, thyme, garlic for pear and baking spice.
Why it works: Roast fat meets the creamy mid-palate. Lemon pulls bright acid through the glass.
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Pan-Seared Scallops
Hard brown crust and lemon butter for toast and almond.
Why it works: Sweet scallop matches stone fruit. Browned butter meets cinnamon oak.
View Recipe for pan-seared scallops (opens in a new tab)Put this 2022 Roberts Road Chardonnay in the cart
Sangiacomo fruit, Jeb Dunnuck 89 to 91, Wine Spectator 89. Sixty-one dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the 2022 from Roberts Road, a different vintage from the 2023.
