Farmhouse Heritage Red
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
grilled lamb chops, slow-cooked beef stew, barbecued pork ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
Bedrock Wine Co. is renowned for its championing of California's liquid history through its 'Heritage' series of field-blend reds. While 'Farmhouse Heritage Red' represents a rare or site-specific expression of this philosophy, Bedrock's signature approach to heritage blends focuses on preserving ancient, head-trained, own-rooted vineyards planted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Typically dominated by Zinfandel, these historic field blends are co-fermented with a kaleidoscope of companion varieties such as Carignan, Mataro (Mourvedre), Syrah, and Alicante Bouschet, just as the early immigrant farmers planted them. This traditional co-fermentation coaxes out remarkable complexity, structure, and a vibrant field-blend character. Crafted with minimal intervention, native yeast fermentations, and thoughtful oak aging, this style of red wine offers a savory, spice-laden, and deeply expressive taste of California's viticultural pioneering era.
🍾 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.