Bedrock Wine Co. Sauvignon Blanc 2022
Location: United States, California
Winemaker: Morgan Twain-Peterson
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
From the Producer: Morgan was the first baby born in the town of Sonoma in 1981 and made his first wine less than five years later. The wine, Vino Bambino, was made from Pinot Noir given to him by the Sangiacomo family and has been featured on the wine lists of Craft, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Hill, Delmonico’s, Aureole, and Mesa Grill.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
After two years in graduate school, despite a love for learning, Morgan decided to come back to California. He worked harvest at the now not-so-small Ravenswood in 2005 followed by harvests in Australia (Hardy’s facility of Tintara and with Drew Noon at Noon Wine Cellars) and Bordeaux (Chateau Lynch Bages). After returning home in the winter of 2006, Morgan set his eyes on starting his own project.
Bedrock Wine Co. began in 2007 in a converted chicken coop on the outskirts of the town of Sonoma. The fruit, hailing from his family’s Bedrock Vineyard and Teldeschi Ranch, was hand pitch-forked into a small destemmer and fermented outside under the sun and stars in redwood fermenters. In somewhat dubious timing, the first wines were released 10 days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event which reinforced Morgan’s strong feeling that wine should be economically accessible to as many people as possible.
In subsequent years, through perspiration and serendipity, several amazing vineyards were added to the Bedrock portfolio. In addition, Morgan started Under the Wirewith his old friend Chris, who he had conned into becoming his partner-in-crime and finances at Bedrock. The wines have been featured in major news publications across the country including the New York Times, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. The wines have been featured four times in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List, placing as high as number 9. In addition, the winery has received a score of 90 points or higher from the same publication over a hundred times. In 2014, Morgan, alongside friend Tegan Passalacqua, was named the San Francisco Chronicle Co-Winemaker of the Year by Jon Bonné. In 2017 Morgan became a Master of Wine, making him one of a handful of winemakers in the United States to gain the certification. In 2020, Bedrock was named Winery of the Year by Antonio Galloni.
Despite this wealth of external validation, Morgan is happiest when pruning, walking his vineyards during the growing season, obsessing over biological controls and regenerative soil practices, blending and muttering while tasting through barrels or spending hours in his car between vineyards listening to podcasts and annoying friends with trivia. He has also been known to throw a good dinner party, largely thanks to Kayte, Morgan’s wife and long-time proofreader of Bedrock release letters. In October of 2020, Morgan and Kayte welcomed their son Joel Howard Peterson (JP or Joel the Younger) into the family. JP has not yet made his first wine, but he’s got a few years to break his dad’s record of youngest winemaker in the Bedrock family.
Location: United States, California
Winemaker: Morgan Twain-Peterson
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
From the Producer: Morgan was the first baby born in the town of Sonoma in 1981 and made his first wine less than five years later. The wine, Vino Bambino, was made from Pinot Noir given to him by the Sangiacomo family and has been featured on the wine lists of Craft, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Hill, Delmonico’s, Aureole, and Mesa Grill.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
After two years in graduate school, despite a love for learning, Morgan decided to come back to California. He worked harvest at the now not-so-small Ravenswood in 2005 followed by harvests in Australia (Hardy’s facility of Tintara and with Drew Noon at Noon Wine Cellars) and Bordeaux (Chateau Lynch Bages). After returning home in the winter of 2006, Morgan set his eyes on starting his own project.
Bedrock Wine Co. began in 2007 in a converted chicken coop on the outskirts of the town of Sonoma. The fruit, hailing from his family’s Bedrock Vineyard and Teldeschi Ranch, was hand pitch-forked into a small destemmer and fermented outside under the sun and stars in redwood fermenters. In somewhat dubious timing, the first wines were released 10 days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event which reinforced Morgan’s strong feeling that wine should be economically accessible to as many people as possible.
In subsequent years, through perspiration and serendipity, several amazing vineyards were added to the Bedrock portfolio. In addition, Morgan started Under the Wirewith his old friend Chris, who he had conned into becoming his partner-in-crime and finances at Bedrock. The wines have been featured in major news publications across the country including the New York Times, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. The wines have been featured four times in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List, placing as high as number 9. In addition, the winery has received a score of 90 points or higher from the same publication over a hundred times. In 2014, Morgan, alongside friend Tegan Passalacqua, was named the San Francisco Chronicle Co-Winemaker of the Year by Jon Bonné. In 2017 Morgan became a Master of Wine, making him one of a handful of winemakers in the United States to gain the certification. In 2020, Bedrock was named Winery of the Year by Antonio Galloni.
Despite this wealth of external validation, Morgan is happiest when pruning, walking his vineyards during the growing season, obsessing over biological controls and regenerative soil practices, blending and muttering while tasting through barrels or spending hours in his car between vineyards listening to podcasts and annoying friends with trivia. He has also been known to throw a good dinner party, largely thanks to Kayte, Morgan’s wife and long-time proofreader of Bedrock release letters. In October of 2020, Morgan and Kayte welcomed their son Joel Howard Peterson (JP or Joel the Younger) into the family. JP has not yet made his first wine, but he’s got a few years to break his dad’s record of youngest winemaker in the Bedrock family.
Location: United States, California
Winemaker: Morgan Twain-Peterson
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
From the Producer: Morgan was the first baby born in the town of Sonoma in 1981 and made his first wine less than five years later. The wine, Vino Bambino, was made from Pinot Noir given to him by the Sangiacomo family and has been featured on the wine lists of Craft, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Hill, Delmonico’s, Aureole, and Mesa Grill.
Morgan’s early exposure to wine and winemaking was thanks to his father Joel Peterson, who had started a small passion project called Ravenswood Winery— a job for which he was steadily not making money while working out of a small building along the big curve on Broadway. Though always enamored with the wine industry, Morgan bypassed a traditional Viticulture and Enology degree and studied History and Political Science at Vassar College. After undergrad, he enrolled at Columbia University with an eye towards a Masters in American Studies. meanwhile working at a small shop in the Upper East Side called Pet Wines. There, he met Chris Cottrell, with whom he became fast friends.
After two years in graduate school, despite a love for learning, Morgan decided to come back to California. He worked harvest at the now not-so-small Ravenswood in 2005 followed by harvests in Australia (Hardy’s facility of Tintara and with Drew Noon at Noon Wine Cellars) and Bordeaux (Chateau Lynch Bages). After returning home in the winter of 2006, Morgan set his eyes on starting his own project.
Bedrock Wine Co. began in 2007 in a converted chicken coop on the outskirts of the town of Sonoma. The fruit, hailing from his family’s Bedrock Vineyard and Teldeschi Ranch, was hand pitch-forked into a small destemmer and fermented outside under the sun and stars in redwood fermenters. In somewhat dubious timing, the first wines were released 10 days after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, an event which reinforced Morgan’s strong feeling that wine should be economically accessible to as many people as possible.
In subsequent years, through perspiration and serendipity, several amazing vineyards were added to the Bedrock portfolio. In addition, Morgan started Under the Wirewith his old friend Chris, who he had conned into becoming his partner-in-crime and finances at Bedrock. The wines have been featured in major news publications across the country including the New York Times, L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. The wines have been featured four times in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 List, placing as high as number 9. In addition, the winery has received a score of 90 points or higher from the same publication over a hundred times. In 2014, Morgan, alongside friend Tegan Passalacqua, was named the San Francisco Chronicle Co-Winemaker of the Year by Jon Bonné. In 2017 Morgan became a Master of Wine, making him one of a handful of winemakers in the United States to gain the certification. In 2020, Bedrock was named Winery of the Year by Antonio Galloni.
Despite this wealth of external validation, Morgan is happiest when pruning, walking his vineyards during the growing season, obsessing over biological controls and regenerative soil practices, blending and muttering while tasting through barrels or spending hours in his car between vineyards listening to podcasts and annoying friends with trivia. He has also been known to throw a good dinner party, largely thanks to Kayte, Morgan’s wife and long-time proofreader of Bedrock release letters. In October of 2020, Morgan and Kayte welcomed their son Joel Howard Peterson (JP or Joel the Younger) into the family. JP has not yet made his first wine, but he’s got a few years to break his dad’s record of youngest winemaker in the Bedrock family.