Cuvee Karatas
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted herb-chicken, seared scallops with lemon-butter sauce, goat cheese tart
✨ Technical Specifications
Bedrock Wine Co.’s Cuv e Karatas is a brilliant homage to the classic, age-worthy dry white wines of Bordeaux’s Graves region, crafted with a uniquely Californian historical twist. This serious white blend is typically composed of S millon and Sauvignon Blanc, drawing from some of the oldest S millon vines in California, notably those planted in the late 19th century at the legendary Monte Rosso Vineyard. Winemaker Morgan Twain-Peterson MW utilizes traditional, low-intervention techniques, including barrel fermentation and aging in French oak and acacia barrels to build a wine of incredible texture, weight, and complexity. The S millon provides a waxy, rich, and structured core with notes of lanolin and stone fruit, while the Sauvignon Blanc injects vibrant acidity and bright citrus aromatics. The name Karatas serves as a proprietary nod to historic structure and stone, representing a white wine built to challenge the red-dominated landscape of Sonoma heritage blends.
🍾 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.