Evangelho Vineyard Carignan
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, or wild mushroom ragout.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the legendary Evangelho Vineyard in Contra Costa County, this wine is a tribute to California's viticultural history. Planted in the 1890s, the ancient, own-rooted Carignan vines survive in deep, wind-blown Delhi blow-sand soils that look more like a beach than a typical vineyard. These sandy soils acted as a natural barrier against phylloxera, preserving these historic vines for over a century. Situated near the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, the vineyard is swept by cool delta breezes that preserve the grape's natural acidity and prolong the growing season. Bedrock Wine Co. crafts this single-vineyard bottling with minimal intervention, utilizing native yeast fermentation and aging in neutral French oak to allow the unique terroir to shine. The resulting wine is remarkably vibrant and complex, offering a beautiful tension between bright pomegranate, dark wild plum, savory dried herbs, and a distinct, mineral-driven salinity that is characteristic of this historic site.
🍾 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.