Saitone Ranch Vineyard Zinfandel
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2029
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled lamb chops with rosemary, slow-cooked barbecue pork, aged hard cheeses like Gouda or Pecorino.
✨ Technical Specifications
Saitone Ranch, located in the heart of the Russian River Valley's Piner-Olivet region, is one of Sonoma County's crown jewels of viticultural history. Originally planted in 1895 by Italian immigrant Antonio Saitone, this historic vineyard features majestic, head-trained, dry-farmed vines that have survived for well over a century. Bedrock Wine Co. crafts this site-specific Zinfandel to honor this legacy, capturing the unique cool-climate signature of the Russian River Valley. The terroir, characterized by morning fog and sandy loam soils, yields a wine of remarkable elegance, bright acidity, and vibrant red fruit character, distinct from warmer-climate Zinfandels. Fermented with native yeasts and aged carefully in French oak barrels, the wine showcases a complex tapestry of wild blackberry, cracked black pepper, and dried floral notes, underpinned by the structural depth that only centenarian vines can provide.
🍾 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.
🍇 Grapes
100% Zinfandel