The Whole Shebang Eleventh Cuvee
⏳ Drinking Window
2021 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled burgers, wood-fired pepperoni pizza, BBQ pulled pork
✨ Technical Specifications
The Whole Shebang Eleventh Cuvee is a masterful multi-vintage red blend crafted by Bedrock Wine Co. to pay homage to California's historic field blends while remaining accessible and immediately delicious. Winemaker Morgan Twain-Peterson MW utilizes a solera-like approach, blending multiple vintages to achieve consistency, depth, and vibrant fruit character. The blend is anchored by Zinfandel and supported by classic heritage varieties such as Carignan, Syrah, Petite Sirah, and Alicante Bouschet, sourced from ancient, head-trained vines. Fermented with native yeasts and aged primarily in neutral French oak, this cuvee represents a preservation of California's viticultural history, delivering a wine bursting with dark berry fruit, cracked black pepper, and savory spice.
🍾 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.