Adobe Road house spotlight
Official Adobe Road Winery tour of Kevin Buckler's Petaluma riverfront house. This Pinot is Sangiacomo fruit from Roberts Road on the northern edge of the Petaluma Gap.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2022 Adobe Road Pinot Noir Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $75.01 and the average is $81.71. Our slash is $66.00.
2022 Adobe Road Pinot Noir Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap, USA
Sangiacomo Roberts Road Pinot from the Petaluma Gap, Pommard co-fermented with 115 and 777, a 2022 you can open at sixty-six dollars.
The 2022 Roberts Road Pinot is Pommard, 115, and 777 co-fermented from Sangiacomo's windswept block at the base of Sonoma Mountain, 35 percent new French oak, 15 months on lees: ripe cherry, toasted pine, and woodsy spice, now $66.
Gap wind, Sangiacomo dirt, a named-road Pinot
Roberts Road sits at the base of Sonoma Mountain on the northern edge of the Petaluma Gap. Sangiacomo has farmed this country for three generations. Adobe Road co-fermented Pommard, 115, and 777, then 35 percent new French oak and 15 months on lees. Jeb Dunnuck 91. James Suckling 90. Dark ruby, kirsch, crushed stone, pressed violet. Sixty-six dollars.
The house
Kevin and Debra Buckler opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Garrett Martin makes the wines.
The wine
Sangiacomo Roberts Road Pinot. Pommard, 115, and 777 co-fermented. 35% new French oak, 15 months on lees.
The scores
Jeb Dunnuck 91. James Suckling 90. Petaluma Gap named-vineyard Pinot.
The drinker
Cherry and pine first. Serve 55 to 58 F. Twenty minutes of air. Duck or salmon.
Ripe cherry and pine, then spice, stone, and silk
The 2022 pours dark ruby: ripe cherry, toasted pine, woodsy spice, licorice, kirsch, crushed stone, pressed violet. Silky tannin, medium-plus, not a jammy costume. The Gap wind keeps the fruit tight. Lees time gives the mid-palate.
A cool Gap year that still gave Pinot ripe cherry and spice. This 2022 is open now in Burgundy stems.
Ripe cherry, toasted pine, woodsy spice, licorice, kirsch, crushed stone, violet.
Medium-plus, silky, 35% new French oak, 15 months on lees.
Stone, spice, length. Serve 55 to 58 F. Twenty minutes of air.
Three clones in one ferment, then 15 months on lees
Roberts Road is a windswept Sangiacomo block at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Garrett Martin co-fermented Pommard with Dijon 115 and 777 so the wine is one Pinot, not a blender's trick after the fact. Thirty-five percent new French oak. Fifteen months on lees. The Gap does the cooling. The cellar keeps the silk.
This is a vineyard wine, not a metal-label Racing Series bottle. The site is on the label.
Serve 55 to 58 F in Burgundy stems. Duck takes the cherry. Salmon takes the spice.
A Petaluma house that bottles a neighbor's road
Buckler stayed in Petaluma. Sangiacomo has farmed the Gap for three generations. Roberts Road is that handshake.
Kevin and Debra Buckler opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. The cellar sits in the same wind that shapes this Pinot.
Sangiacomo is a grower name, not a slogan. Roberts Road sits at the base of Sonoma Mountain on the northern edge of the Gap.
The 2022 is that named-road Pinot: Pommard, 115, 777, a Petaluma bottle from Petaluma fruit.
Duck, then salmon
Petaluma Gap Pinot wants bird and a hard sear on fish. Duck fat takes the cherry. Salmon oil takes the pine and spice.
Two plates. One duck breast with cherry sauce. One crispy-skin salmon. Both can take Roberts Road Pinot.
Serve 55 to 58 F. Twenty minutes of air. Burgundy stems.
Duck Breast with Cherry Sauce
Duck fat and cherry for kirsch, ripe cherry, and silky tannin.
Why it works: Cherry in the sauce stays in the wine's fruit lane. Pinot tannin cuts the skin.
View Recipe for pan-seared duck breast (opens in a new tab)
Crispy-Skin Salmon
Hard sear, lemon, and oil for Gap Pinot spice.
Why it works: Salmon oil cushions silk. Citrus keeps toasted pine lifted.
View Recipe for pan-seared salmon (opens in a new tab)Put this 2022 Roberts Road Pinot in the cart
Sangiacomo fruit, Pommard with 115 and 777, Jeb Dunnuck 91. Sixty-six dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is named-road Petaluma Gap Pinot, not a generic Sonoma blend.
