Vineyard Under the Mountain Heritage
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, wild mushroom polenta
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the historic Under the Mountain Vineyard, situated at the eastern base of the Santa Cruz Mountains in the Santa Clara Valley, this heritage red wine is a liquid testament to California's viticultural past. Planted in the 1910s, the vineyard features ancient, own-rooted vines that struggle through gravelly loam soils. The field blend is anchored by Zinfandel and complemented by Carignan and other mixed black varieties. Bedrock Wine Co. employs traditional, low-intervention winemaking techniques, including native yeast fermentation and aging in mostly used French oak barrels, to let the site's unique voice speak. The resulting wine is remarkably complex, balancing dark brambly fruit, cracked black pepper, and a distinct stony minerality that reflects its dramatic mountain-shadowed 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.