Bedrock Wine Co.

Bedrock Wine Co. was founded in 2007 by Morgan Twain-Peterson in a 550 square-foot, former chicken coop with 8 foot ceilings and no fermentation space. After six years of Bedrock being a one-man-show, Morgan was able to talk his best friend, Chris Cottrell, into moving to California from New York to join him. They now happily have a little more space to move around in but share the same objectives that guided the winery at the start.

The wi...

Though I consider the winemaking at Bedrock to be very rudimentary there are several core principles that define the general philosophy.

By using incredible sites and maintaining impeccable farming throughout the growing season I can do the bare minimum in the winery.

By bare minimum I mean handling fruit gently, in many cases using whole-clusters, and fermenting exclusively with the microflora that comes in with the grapes or is already...