The Whole Shebang Fifteenth Cuvee
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Gourmet cheeseburgers, wood-fired pepperoni pizza, slow-cooked barbecue pork ribs
✨ Technical Specifications
The Whole Shebang is Bedrock Wine Co.'s homage to the historic field blends of California, crafted as an incredibly accessible, multi-vintage cuvée. Winemaker Morgan Twain-Peterson MW created this project to offer a delicious, soulful red that punches far above its weight class by utilizing fruit from ancient, head-trained vines—some over a century old—that do not make it into the winery's flagship single-vineyard bottlings. The Fifteenth Cuvée is a masterfully assembled blend dominated by Zinfandel, supported by Carignan, Syrah, Petite Sirah, Alicante Bouschet, and other heritage varieties. By blending across multiple vintages and aging the wine in neutral French oak, Bedrock achieves a perfect balance of youthful, juicy fruit and savory, structured complexity, keeping the legendary spirit of California's field blends alive in an everyday glass.
🍾 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.