Adobe Road house spotlight
Kevin Buckler's Petaluma house, official winery tour of the new riverfront complex, the cellar behind this Amaral Sauvignon Blanc.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2024 Adobe Road Sauvignon Blanc Sangiacomo Amaral Vineyard Carneros across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $32.15 and the average is $33.49. Our slash is $33.00.
2024 Adobe Road Sauvignon Blanc Sangiacomo Amaral Vineyard Carneros, USA
Garrett Martin's Sangiacomo Amaral Sauvignon Blanc from Carneros, citrus and wet stone, a 2024 you can open at thirty-three dollars.
The 2024 Adobe Road is 100 percent Sauvignon Blanc from Sangiacomo Amaral Vineyard in Carneros: citrus, green herbs, wet stone, and a clean cool-climate line, now $33.
Named-vineyard Carneros SB, not a generic California white
Amaral is a Sangiacomo block in Carneros. Adobe Road bottles that site as Sauvignon Blanc, not the Dry Creek house white. Three generations of Sangiacomo farming, a Petaluma cellar, Garrett Martin. Citrus, green herbs, and wet stone. This is the bottle that argues a named Carneros vineyard can still be thirty-three dollars.
The house
Kevin and Debra Buckler opened Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Garrett Martin makes the wines.
The vineyard
Sangiacomo Amaral in Carneros. A named site, not a generic California Sauvignon Blanc.
The wine
100% Sauvignon Blanc. Citrus, green herbs, wet stone. Built for oysters and a Tuesday night.
The drinker
Serve near 46 F. No decant. Oysters or roast chicken.
Citrus and herbs, then wet stone
Carneros keeps Sauvignon Blanc tight. Amaral reads as citrus and green herbs over wet stone, a dry line without a grassy supermarket costume. Martin bottles it to drink now.
A current California white year. Cool Carneros nights keep citrus and stone in a Sauvignon Blanc picked to drink, not to wait.
Citrus, lemon, green herbs, wet stone.
Dry, bright acid, Carneros cool-climate line, no heavy oak speech.
Stone, herbs. Serve near 46 F. No decant.
Carneros fruit, Petaluma cellar
Sangiacomo farms Amaral in Carneros. Adobe Road ferments it as Sauvignon Blanc in Petaluma under Garrett Martin. The site is the point: cool nights, citrus, herbs, wet stone. This is not a barrel-fermented costume and not a Dry Creek bottling wearing a different name.
Sangiacomo has farmed Petaluma and Carneros for three generations. Amaral is the Carneros block on this label.
Serve near 46 F. Oysters first.
A racer, a farming family, a Carneros block
Buckler stayed in Petaluma. The whites come from the Gap and Carneros. Amaral is the Sangiacomo Carneros Sauvignon Blanc.
Adobe Road is a Petaluma house with Napa and Sonoma fruit. Kevin Buckler raced. Debra Buckler built the hospitality side.
Sangiacomo has farmed this coast for three generations. Amaral is a named Carneros block, not a bulk white.
The 2024 names the vineyard. That is the authority in the glass.
Oysters, then roast chicken
Carneros Sauvignon Blanc wants brine and roast fat. Oysters take the stone. Chicken takes the citrus.
Two plates. One tray of oysters. One roast chicken.
Serve near 46 F. No decant. Open it tonight.
Oysters on ice
Lemon, mignonette, nothing else.
Why it works: Brine and Sauvignon Blanc are the same conversation.
View Recipe for oysters with mignonette (opens in a new tab)
Roast chicken
High-heat roast, lemon, thyme, garlic.
Why it works: Roast fat and lemon echo citrus while acidity cuts the skin.
View Recipe for roast chicken (opens in a new tab)Put Amaral Sauvignon Blanc in the cart
Sangiacomo Amaral, Carneros, Garrett Martin. Thirty-three dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is named-vineyard Carneros SB, not a generic California white.
