Pato Vineyard Heritage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck breast, slow-braised lamb shanks, or wild mushroom risotto.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the wind-swept, deep Delhi blow-sands of Oakley in Contra Costa County, the Pato Vineyard is a historic treasure planted in the early 20th century. Because phylloxera cannot thrive in these pure, sandy soils, these ancient vines remain own-rooted, standing as living monuments to California's viticultural past. Bedrock Wine Co. crafts this Heritage red as a traditional field blend, dominated by Zinfandel and Mataro (Mourvèdre), alongside smaller portions of Petite Sirah and Alicante Bouschet. The unique sandy terroir imparts a remarkably elegant and perfumed character to the wine, yielding bright red and dark berry fruit notes, exotic spices, and a signature fine-grained, dusty tannin structure. Fermented with native yeasts and aged in French oak, it beautifully balances rustic heritage with refined complexity.
🍾 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.