Sauvignon Blanc
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2024
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Oysters on the half shell, roasted herb-stuffed chicken, goat cheese crostini
✨ Technical Specifications
Bedrock Wine Co.’s Sauvignon Blanc is a testament to Morgan Twain-Peterson MW’s dedication to preserving California's historic vineyards, even when it comes to white varieties. Sourced primarily from older, meticulously farmed sites in Sonoma County—most notably the historic Uboldi Vineyard planted in the 1960s—this wine departs from the simple, highly tropical style often associated with modern California Sauvignon Blanc. Instead, Bedrock crafts a wine of serious texture, complexity, and mineral tension. The grapes are typically whole-cluster pressed and fermented using native yeasts in a thoughtful combination of neutral French oak barrels, concrete eggs, and stainless steel. This diverse vessel program allows the wine to develop a rich, creamy mid-palate and complex lees character without being masked by new oak aromas. It is a brilliant homage to the classic, age-worthy white wines of Bordeaux, offering a beautifully structured expression of Sonoma terroir.
🍾 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.