The Whole Shebang Fourteenth Cuvee
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Barbecued pulled pork, wood-fired pepperoni pizza, grilled hamburgers
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted by winemaker Morgan Twain-Peterson MW of Bedrock Wine Co., 'The Whole Shebang' is a masterful multi-vintage red blend designed to offer a delicious, soulful, and affordable tribute to California's historic field blends. The Fourteenth Cuvee brings together a complex medley of Zinfandel, Carignan, Syrah, Petite Sirah, and Alicante Bouschet, sourced from both younger plantings and declassified lots of Bedrock's prized historic old-vine vineyards. By blending across multiple vintages, Bedrock achieves a consistently vibrant, juicy, and expressive profile that captures the sunny disposition of California viticulture. It is fermented using native yeasts and aged primarily in neutral French oak to preserve its bright, primary fruit character while maintaining a touch of the savory complexity and structure that defines Bedrock's high-end heritage wines.
🍾 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.