Bedrock Heritage
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2032
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted rack of lamb with rosemary, grilled ribeye steak, or slow-cooked wild mushroom risotto.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Bedrock Heritage Red is the flagship bottling from Bedrock Wine Co., sourced from the historic Bedrock Vineyard in the heart of Sonoma Valley. Originally planted in 1854 by Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Ninian Elizabeth, and replanted in 1888 by Senator George Hearst, this vineyard is a living archive of California's viticultural history. The wine is a classic, field-blended representation of these ancient, head-trained vines. While Zinfandel typically makes up the majority of the blend (around 50-60%), it is interplanted and co-fermented with over 20 other varieties, including Carignan, Mataro (Mourvèdre), Syrah, and Alicante Bouschet. This traditional field-blend method, favored by 19th-century immigrant farmers, creates a natural harmony, complexity, and structural balance that cannot be replicated by blending separate lots. The wine is fermented with native yeasts and aged in French oak barrels, resulting in a deeply expressive, savory, and multi-layered red with remarkable freshness, dark fruit character, and exotic spice notes.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 2007 by Morgan Twain-Peterson MW—later joined by partner Chris Cottrell—Bedrock Wine Co. began in a converted chicken coop with an urgent viticultural ethos: preserving California's precious heritage vineyards. The winery works closely with ancient, multi-varietal field blends across diverse terroirs, including volcanic, alluvium, granitic, and decomposed limestone parcels spanning Sonoma Valley, Contra Costa County, and the Central Coast. Central to the estate's identity is the historic Bedrock Vineyard, originally planted in 1854, which achieved Regenerative Organic Certification. Bedrock champions dry farming, minimal intervention, and historic head-trained vines. In the cellar, Twain-Peterson employs spontaneous native yeast fermentation, whole-cluster inclusions, and neutral wood, studiously avoiding chemical adjustments or excessive extraction. Beyond its legendary red heritage bottlings, Bedrock crafts benchmark whites and rosés—including the perfumed Compagni Portis Heirloom White, crystalline Wirz Vineyard Riesling, and artisanal expressions of Bien Nacido Chardonnay and Ode to Lulu Rosé—each presenting remarkable tension, saline minerality, and profound historic authenticity.