Adobe Road house spotlight
Official Adobe Road Winery tour of Kevin Buckler's Petaluma riverfront house. This listing is the 3.0L of 2018 Blue Dog Cabernet, four 750ml bottles in one vessel.
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2018 /2019 Adobe Road Cabernet Sauvignon Blue Dog Napa & Sonoma Counties across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $45.40 and the average is $82.79. Our slash is $315.00.
3.0L 2018/2019 Adobe Road Cabernet Sauvignon Blue Dog Napa & Sonoma Counties, USA
A 3.0L of 2018 or 2019 Blue Dog Cabernet, four 750ml bottles of Napa-Sonoma Cabernet in one vessel, a table format you can open at three hundred fifteen dollars.
The 2018/2019 Blue Dog in 3.0L is Cabernet from Napa and Sonoma, four 750ml bottles in one cork, now $315 against a $376 typical retail for this format.
Four bottles of Napa-Sonoma Cabernet in one vessel
This listing is a 3.0L, not a 750ml. Blue Dog is the house Cabernet from Napa and Sonoma. Eight years in large format have settled the oak. Spiced dark fruit, plum, violet, cedar, wet stone. Typical retail for this 3.0L is $376, the four-bottle equivalent, not a 750ml street ticket. Three hundred fifteen dollars.
The house
Kevin and Debra Buckler built Adobe Road in Petaluma in 2002. Racing is the brand. The fruit is Napa and Sonoma.
The wine
Blue Dog Cabernet from Napa polish and Sonoma spice. The 2018 in 3.0L, not the 2021 750ml.
The format
3.0L is four 750ml bottles in one cork. Typical retail is $376 for this format.
The drinker
Cassis and cedar first. Serve near 64 F. Decant 30 minutes. A board of ribeye, not a canape.
Dark fruit, cedar, and a long Cabernet line
Spiced dark fruit, plum, violet, cedar, wet stone. Full, structured, better after a decant. Large format has slowed the clock. Eight years on, the oak has settled and the Cabernet still has a table tannin.
A generous California Cabernet year. Eight years in 3.0L have kept the fruit and folded the oak. This is a table bottle now.
Plum, blueberry, cedar, violet, wet stone.
Full Cabernet, fine tannin, Napa plus Sonoma, 3.0L format.
Long. Serve near 64 F. Decant 30 minutes.
Napa polish, Sonoma spice, a 3.0L cork
Blue Dog is the house Cabernet, not a vineyard-designate puzzle. Napa and Sonoma fruit, Garrett Martin, French oak, Petaluma cellar. This page is the 3.0L of the 2018/2019. Do not read a 750ml street ask as this bottle. Four 750ml bottles live in one vessel.
A 3.0L wants a wide decanter and a crowd. Thirty minutes of air is a start.
Serve near 64 F. Ribeye on the board. This is a table format, not a tasting pour.
A racer who stayed in Petaluma
Buckler could have built in Napa. He stayed on the river and bottled Cabernet for a table, not a trophy case.
Kevin Buckler raced at Daytona and Le Mans, then opened Adobe Road in 2002.
Blue Dog is the Cabernet that carries Napa and Sonoma in one bottle.
This 3.0L is that 2018 or 2019 wine in large format. The 2021 750ml is a separate listing.
Steak for the table, not a tasting pour
A 3.0L wants a board of ribeye, not a canape. Lamb is the second plate if the table is large enough.
One hard-seared ribeye. One rack of lamb. A 3.0L can take both.
Serve near 64 F. Decant 30 minutes. 3.0L air is slow. Give it a wide decanter.
Pan-Seared Ribeye
Kenji's hard sear, rosy center, coarse salt. The plate for a 3.0L Cabernet.
Why it works: Char and fat match dark fruit while tannin cuts the crust.
View Recipe for pan-seared steaks (opens in a new tab)
Rosemary Garlic Rack of Lamb
Rosemary garlic marinade, roasted pink, for a table 3.0L.
Why it works: Rosemary and lamb fat echo savory spice in the glass.
View Recipe for rosemary garlic rack of lamb (opens in a new tab)Put a 3.0L of Blue Dog on the table
Four bottles worth of wine in one vessel. Three hundred fifteen dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is the 3.0L Blue Dog, not a 750ml.
