Sodini Vineyard Zinfandel
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2028
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled rosemary lamb chops, slow-roasted pork shoulder, or aged cheddar cheese.
✨ Technical Specifications
The Sodini Vineyard Zinfandel is sourced from a historic, centenarian vineyard planted in 1905 along Limerick Lane in the Russian River Valley. Farmed by the Sodini family for generations, these ancient, head-trained, dry-farmed vines thrive in the cool, fog-influenced climate of the region. This unique terroir imparts a signature bright acidity and elegant structure to the Zinfandel, which is often field-blended with small amounts of other heritage varieties like Alicante Bouschet. Bedrock Wine Co. vinifies the fruit using native yeasts and ages the wine in primarily used French oak barrels to emphasize the site's vibrant red fruit, cracked black pepper, and complex forest floor notes rather than heavy oak influence.
🍾 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