Fodor's Expert Review Bedrock Wine Co.
Zinfandel and other varietals grown in heritage vineyards throughout California are the focus of Bedrock, a young winery whose backstory involves several historical figures. Tastings take place in a home east of Sonoma Plaza owned in the 1850s by General Joseph Hooker. General William Tecumseh Sherman was his partner in the vineyard a few miles away (a spat over it affected their Civil War interactions); the next owner, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst's father, George, replanted it in the late 1880s. Some Hearst vines still produce grapes, whose current owner-winemaker, Morgan Twain-Peterson, learned about Zinfandel from his dad, Ravenswood founder Joel Peterson. Twain-Peterson's bottlings, many of them field blends containing multiple varietals grown and fermented together, are as richly textured as his winery's prehistory.