Bedrock Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled ribeye steak, slow-braised lamb shanks, or roasted portobello mushrooms with herbs.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from one of California's most historic vineyards, the Bedrock Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is a testament to the deep viticultural roots of Sonoma Valley. Originally planted in 1854 by General William Tecumseh Sherman and later owned by Senator George Hearst, the Bedrock Vineyard is famed for its ancient field blends, but it also coaxes extraordinary depth from its Cabernet Sauvignon vines. Grown in the vineyard's cobbly, well-drained volcanic soils, this wine is crafted using traditional, low-intervention methods, including fermentation with native yeasts and aging in French oak barrels. The result is an old-school, structured California Cabernet that eschews modern over-extraction in favor of savory complexity, bright acidity, and intense dark fruit notes of blackberry and cassis, framed by firm, age-worthy tannins.
🍾 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.