Bedrock Heritage Wine Sonoma – 2021

Made from vinesover 130 years old and grown on the Petersen family vineyard in the heart of Sonoma. Composed of over 22 interplanted varieties, the Bedrock Vineyard Heritage Wine is the wine that Morgan Petersen started Bedrock winery to make. This piece of rock strewn red clay soils produces a wine of citrus-tinged red fruits and spice – a wine which speaks as much of its vineyard as of the varieties from which it is composed- which of course is the point. Composed of roughly 55% Zinfandel, 30% Carignane, with the balance being the many other varieties scattered throughout the vineyard.

“Crazy to think this is the 15th bottling we have made of this wine! The 1888 plantings at our home ranch produced very small amounts of dense, rich fruit in 2021 that will make this one of the greatest Bedrock Heritage Wines we have made. The wonderfully even growing season and cool August allowed sugars to accumulate slowly and natural acidity to remain bright, making for a classically composed expression of our Sonoma Valley site. As always, this is a field-blend of over 20 different varieties interplanted on the iron-rich, red and cobbly soils of our home ranch. This vineyard is the gravitational center of everything else we do at Bedrock—it is the vineyard we walk with our families in, it is where we have learned via trial and error how to farm. It is in constant evolution, just like our winery and ourselves, and year after year we feel deeper gratitude for its existence and to my father for having the foresight to purchase it nearly two decades ago.” Morgan Petersen MW, winemaker