(Petaluma, Calif -- March 23) Adobe Road Winery and Cordillera Ranch are teaming up to deliver a truly exceptional winemaker experience Tuesday, March 27 with a poolside Adobe Road Winemaker’s Dinner. Centered on the highly acclaimed wines from the California winery and paired with a menu crafted and presented by Executive Chef Isaac Cantu and his team, this will be an extraordinary evening.
Adobe Road Winery hails directly from the “starting line” of California Wine Country in Petaluma, California. The small lot producer is one one of the hottest boutique wineries in the industry, crafting award-winning wines from premier vineyards in Sonoma and Napa counties, including the new Petaluma Gap American Viticultural Area. The awards and accolades keep coming -- the winery has achieved 16 90+ scores in Wine Spectator and Robert Parker Wine Advocate in just the last year and has been featured at world-class events such as Wine Spectator’s Grand Tour and Wine Experience (Adobe Road’s flagship Napa/Rutherford Beckstoffer Vineyard sourced Cabernet Sauvignon is always a highlight), as well as Wine Advocate’s Matter of Taste
Founders Kevin and Debra Buckler are among Petaluma’s original wine pioneers. Kevin is a champion race car driver and helms The Racers Group (TRG). With international victories at the 24 hours of Le Mans and the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona (four wins/once overall), seven series championships and over 100 professional victories, TRG holds the winningest record of any independent GT sportscar racing team in North America.
Buckler’s push into other avenues has led the motorsports program to keep a heavy schedule of high-end corporate events, immersing guests into the high adrenaline world of professional sportscar racing. From VIP race weekend hospitality to fully captivating driving experiences, TRG and Adobe Road deliver one-of-a-kind platforms designed for maximum enjoyment and engagement, spotlighting the backstage access, food and Adobe Road wines you can only get at a TRG event.
The team will compete at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, March 23-25 with the PIrelli World Challenge series, debuting the fast and beautiful TRG #66 Porsche Cayman GT4 MR race car in SprintX competition. The team’s race-winning race cars will be on display alongside cars from Mark Motors at Cordillera Ranch for a unique car, wine and food event. Derek DeBoer and Sean Gibbons, TRG’s pro drivers in Austin will be in attendance.
A Drive for Perfection
The Wines of Adobe Road at Cordillera Ranch
Tuesday, March 27
Cordillera Ranch
1092 Clubs Drive
Boerne, TX 78006
6 - 9 p.m.
$129++ includes six Adobe Road wine tastings and dinner
Reservations are required and can be made with the Cordillera Ranch receptionist at 830.336.9000.
Mar 23, 2018 at 12:35 PM
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Kevin and the Adobe Road team had an exciting and successful weekend in San Francisco at Robert Parker Wine Advocate Matter of Taste. This annual world-class wine and food event brings together thousands of wine lovers, chefs and influencers and we were delighted to see so many familiar faces, including our winery partners, Inside Track Wine Club members, friends and fans over the weekend.
The weekend kicked off Friday evening with an exclusive wine dinner with Kevin, Garrett and 7 of our winery partners, enjoying multiple courses and outstanding wines, hosted by Vérité Star winemaker Pierre Seillan and the esteemed Wine Advocate team.
Saturday’s Grand Walkabout Tasting offered guests the opportunity to taste 200 outstanding Right Bank Bordeaux-inspired wines from around the globe, each scoring 90 points or more from Wine Advocate, including Adobe Road's 2014 Cabernet Franc and 2013 Apex releases.
The weekend in San Francisco gave Kevin and the Adobe Road team a wonderful opportunity to showcase Adobe Road’s award-winning wines and we were honored to have been such a huge part of the weekend at Matter of Taste.
And now the team is on the way to St. Petersburg, Florida for a series of elevated Adobe Road winemaker eventsin conjunction with the first race week of the year for our sister company, The Racers Group.
Mar 5, 2018 at 1:51 PM
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We invite you to join us at Robert Parker Wine Advocate Matter of Taste San Francisco this Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3 at the City Club. Adobe Road Winery is honored to be featured in the Grand Walkabout Tasting at Matter of Taste as this world-class Robert Parker Wine Advocate event returns to San Francisco.
Matter of Taste is an international, exclusive wine celebration, showcasing the talents of the world’s premier wines and winemakers. This year, the event will highlight 200 outstanding Right Bank Bordeaux-inspired wines from around the globe, each scoring 90 points or more from Wine Advocate, including Adobe Road's 2014 Cabernet Franc and 2013 Apex. Thousands of guests and notable food and wine influencers will be on hand to experience the best wines in the world.
“All of us at Adobe Road Winery are honored to be invited to participate in the Robert Parker Wine Advocate international tour stop -- the San Francisco Matter of Taste,” says Kevin Buckler, Adobe Road Winery’s founder and CEO. “What a fantastic day in the Bay visiting some of the top wineries in the world and interacting with the owners and winemakers, including two fantastic dinner options. We’ve been invited to pour two of our outstanding qualifying wines and we’re looking forward to doing our usual, top-notch job of participating and supporting such a spectacular event. I invite any of our friends in the wine world to come on down for this wonderful event as it’s not to be missed.”
We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco this weekend!
Use this special promo code to receive $30 off the price of your Matter of Taste ticket, including VIP access and the Grand Walkabout Tasting: ARWSF18.
Mar 1, 2018 at 11:10 AM
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Adobe Road is in many ways a luxury brand, which is not surprising given TRG’s affiliations with Porsche, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini. Several of its wines are priced in the $100 – $175 range, and the entire portfolio is crafted to wow the glitterati trackside at Le Mans or Daytona, or at exclusive events such as Wine Spectator’s Wine Experiences.
Adobe Road Winery 2017 Rosé - A fun and funky blend of pinot noir, syrah, grenache, zinfandel and petite sirah, Adobe Road’s rosé features grapes grown in the newly designated Petaluma Gap AVA...
Before the show, some guests enjoyed wine from Adobe Road poured straight from the cask, and posed for photos in a digital photo booth...
Wine Spectator's annual series of tasting extravaganzas continued in New York with 244 outstanding wines from 15 nations
Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate is one of the most iconic wine publications in the world. Adobe Road Winery is honored to be reviewed in this month's Sonoma and Napa wine issue
What do race car driving and California Cabernet have in common?
The Find: In the early evening, we were slowly spinning our wheels looking for somewhere to have a pre-dinner drink. We went from 0 to 200 mph when we found Adobe Road Winery Tasting Room (6 Petaluma Blvd. N.; [707] 939-9099), race car driver and vintner Kevin Buckler’s tasting room, which opened in the summer. We chose the “Showcase” pouring
Located 32 miles north of San Francisco, in both Sonoma and Marin Counties, the Petaluma Gap is an inland valley distinguished by a 15-mile wide aperture in the coastal hills through which salty maritime wind and afternoon fog whisk in a chill.
A long-awaited proposal for a state-of-the-art downtown Petaluma winery, tasting room and auto racing museum is gaining momentum, according to Adobe Road Winery’s CEO.
The new AVA includes about 80 winegrowers and nine wineries. One of our favorite wines released this year is an example of the quality of Pinot Noir grapes grown in the region—75 percent of the fruit planted is Pinot Noir—and the range of complexity that’s possible from multiple-elevation harvesting.
In the Great Petaluma Mill complex find Adobe Road Winery’s tasting room. Tasting excellent wines like their Big Pig Pinot and one labeled merely ”Red Wine” made me an instant fan.
The federal government on Thursday recognized the Petaluma Gap as the newest American Viticultural Area (AVA), giving Sonoma County its 18th such wine appellation and providing another reminder of its vast diversity of grape growing throughout the region.
Wine is not all about speed, and that was exactly why it appealed to champion GT racing team leader Kevin Buckler. At the Adobe Road tasting room in downtown Petaluma, I’m told that Buckler values the slow and steady process of making wine. As for high points and awards—it doesn’t hurt that Adobe Road wines have scored those, too.
Downtown Petaluma keeps getting hotter, and the hip-factor will only increase when Adobe Road opens their new 15,000 square foot winery and tasting room along the Petaluma River. And it's going to be more than just a winery - they'll have a motorsports museum (Adobe Road owner Kevin Buckler owns one of the most successful racing teams in the world), an event center and commercial kitchen. Guests can sip wine by the bottle, served alongside wood-fired pizza, on the riverfront patio.
Kevin Buckler is a man with two passions: fast cars and fun. And how does he bridge these two very distinct passions together? Through his two companies, Adobe Road Winery and The Racers Group. Running one successful business is a feat in itself, but Buckler is not one to shy away from a challenge. He rather flawlessly runs two, rotating between crafting award-winning wines and running his ever-expanding motorsports company.
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Adobe Road Winery has once again been invited to participate in arguably one of the most prestigious events a winery can attend, Wine Spectator’s New York Wine Experience, October 20 – 22. The event is attended by wine enthusiasts from around the world and only the top rated wineries in the world are invited to pour at the Critics’ Choice Grand Tasting.
Adobe Road has released the most unique Rosés of the season, in partnership with Lagunitas Brewing Company: a sparkling Rosé. Super-limited at a mere 60 cases, this primarily Zinfandel-based wine has the rich head of a beer and the sweet flavor of watermelon and maraschino cherry. A must try for those who like to balance their wine tasting with their beer sipping.
Dozens of people gathered on Tuesday to raise their glass to Petaluma’s newest wine tasting room, a venue for home-grown Adobe Road Winery to gain more face time with the public as it moves toward building a nearby hub for wining and dining on the edge ofthe Petaluma River.
The Petaluma Planning Commission voted swiftly and unanimously on Tuesday to approve a permit for Adobe Road Winery’s tasting room at The Great Petaluma Mill, 6 Petaluma Blvd. North. It will be downtown Petaluma’s second wine tasting room, and the first serving a wide variety of wines.
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Adobe Road Winery has been invited to participate in the prestigious Wine Spectator New York Wine Experience, taking place the weekend of October 20-22, 2016. It is truly an honor to be invited to pour alongside some of the best wineries from all across the globe and adds additional excitement around the winery’s new project in Petaluma. The three-day event is every wine aficionados dream, with sit-down tastings of award winning vintages (all scored over 90 points), the Critic’s Choice Grand Tastings, and the exclusive black-tie awards banquet. This is the very best of the wine world. We hope to see you there.
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We are eager and excited to open the doors of our new satellite Tasting Room in the Great Petaluma Mill, in the very heart of Historic Downtown Petaluma. This will be our cozy home while development and construction begin on the new headquarters facility, just around the corner. Final licensing and approval are close to completion, and we can’t wait to see some new and familiar faces stopping by to taste some of the new releases. -expected to open late next month.
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Garrett Martin of Adobe Road Winery summed up their lot of 10 cases as “Petaluma Gap in a glass.” The Winegrowers of Dry Creek Valley represented all generations of Dry Creek by combining equal amounts of zinfandel from seven wineries, half who are the original producers in the region and the other half are newer producers of Zinfandel.
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His decision was one example of many in recent years that have made Petaluma the leader in economic development in Sonoma County. It has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the county — 4.1 percent in March — and the second highest median household income, at $75,655 in 2015.
The business activity has rapidly reversed the fortunes of this city of almost 60,000, which was hit with a one-two punch at the turn of the millennium — fallout from the telecom bust of the early 2000s and the real estate crash some six years later. At its low point, commercial office vacancy rates were 40 percent.
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When Lori Varsames saw her dream job in her dream location pop up on LinkedIn one morning, she jumped on the opportunity and applied.
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"When you’re starting to attract businesses that are relocating from the square in Sonoma — the heart of Sonoma Wine Country — to the heart of Petaluma, that really tells you just how attractive the area is, I think it’s going to be a great amenity for our local economy. It’s going to be a great ambiance for the downtown. It’s exactly what the downtown ought to be building."
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Our exciting new State-of-the-Art facility in downtown Petaluma...right on the Riverfront, continues to progress! We are bringing together all of the “Best Practices/Best of the Best” in terms of Tasting Room, Visitors Center, Winery and state-of-the-art equipment, Corporate and Banquet Facilities, Food and Cooking classes, Private Tasting and Barrel Room, Ultra-Premium Custom Crush/Private Label and a Beautiful Automotive and Motorsports Museum - all rolled into one EPIC location, operated by a highly efficient and motivated team. No pun intended but we are going to CRUSH IT!
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