Adobe Road house spotlight
Official Adobe Road Winery tour of Kevin Buckler's Petaluma riverfront house. This 2023 Chardonnay is the current white from Sangiacomo Roberts Road.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2023 Adobe Road Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $34.83 and the average is $80.37. Our slash is $89.00.
2023 Adobe Road Chardonnay Sangiacomo Vineyards Roberts Road Petaluma Gap, USA
Sangiacomo Roberts Road Chardonnay from the windy edge of Sonoma Mountain, stone fruit and toast, a current 2023 you can open at eighty-nine dollars.
The 2023 Roberts Road Chardonnay is the current Sangiacomo white from the Petaluma Gap: stone fruit, baker's yeast, toast, almond, creamy texture, lively acid, now $89.
The current white from the same Roberts Road block
This is the 2023, the current Sangiacomo Roberts Road Chardonnay, not the 2022. The Gap keeps the citrus tight. Oak is a seasoning: toast and almond, not a plank. Stone fruit, baker's yeast, creamy mid-palate, lively acid. Same windswept block at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Eighty-nine 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, 2023. Gap wind, stone fruit, toast as a seasoning.
The vintage
The current white from the same block as the 2022. A later harvest, a tighter citrus line.
The drinker
Stone fruit and toast first. Serve near 50 F. No long decant. Roast chicken or scallops.
Stone fruit and yeast, then toast, almond, and lift
The 2023 opens on stone fruit and baker's yeast, then toast and almond. Creamy texture, lively acid. The Gap keeps the citrus tight so the oak stays in the background. A current California Chardonnay that still drinks like a coastal white.
A cooler, later California white year. This 2023 Roberts Road Chardonnay is built for freshness now.
Stone fruit, baker's yeast, toast, almond, citrus lift.
Creamy mid-palate, lively acid, oak as seasoning.
Toast, almond, clean close. Serve near 50 F. No long decant.
Cool Gap fruit, oak as a seasoning
Roberts Road is a windswept Sangiacomo block at the base of Sonoma Mountain. Garrett Martin keeps the 2023 Chardonnay in the Gap's citrus lane. Toast and almond come from the barrel. The fruit stays stone and yeast. Serve it cold.
This is the current vintage of the same named-road white as the 2022 listing. Different year, different bottle.
Serve near 50 F. Roast chicken or a hard sear on scallops.
A racer who bottles white as seriously as Cabernet
Buckler stayed in Petaluma. The whites come from the Gap, not a warm inland blend.
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 is a named block at the base of Sonoma Mountain.
The 2023 is the current white from that block. The 2022 is a separate listing.
Roast chicken, then scallops
Petaluma Gap Chardonnay wants roast bird and a hard sear on scallops. Fat meets cream. Lemon keeps the toast lifted.
Two plates. One roast chicken. One pan of scallops. Both can take Roberts Road Chardonnay.
Serve near 50 F. No long decant. A cold glass keeps stone fruit in front.
Roast Chicken
High-heat roast, lemon, thyme, garlic for creamy Gap Chardonnay.
Why it works: Roast fat and lemon echo citrus while acidity cuts the skin.
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Pan-Seared Scallops
Hard brown crust and lemon butter for toast and almond.
Why it works: Sweet scallop and browned butter match stone fruit.
View Recipe for pan-seared scallops (opens in a new tab)Put this 2023 Roberts Road Chardonnay in the cart
Sangiacomo fruit, current vintage, stone fruit and toast. Eighty-nine dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the 2023 from Roberts Road, not the 2022.
