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    2020 Bedrock Wine Company Old Vine Zinfandel California 750 ml

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    The Rewards of Time

    Chances are your average winemaker would call vines aged 40 to 60 years “old.”

    And chances are Morgan Twain-Peterson wouldn’t touch ‘em.

    A staggering 80% of the vines that Twain-Peterson—the SF Chronicle’s 2014 Co-Winemaker of the Year—and his Bedrock team work with are at least 80 years old. One sip of their vivacious, gorgeously concentrated 2020 Old Vine Zinfandel shows that the time and treasure Bedrock’s team devotes to California’s most historic vineyard sites is well worth it.

    Bedrock is California’s new Zinfandel icon. Drawn off many century-plus-old sites that go into the winery’s more expensive single-site bottlings—Sonoma’s Bedrock Vineyard, Contra Costa’s Evangelho, Alexander Valley’s Nervo, and Lodi’s Schmiedt Road among them—this bottle has been embraced by savvy wine-lovers and somms.  

    Twain-Peterson is one of the primary forces behind a growing group of winemakers dedicated to finding, restoring, and preserving historic vineyards, then crafting wines that express the sites’ profundity. His experience working with these plots and ushering their grapes into bottle has made him a believer not just in the idea that older vines yield more-concentrated grapes, but that time itself selects only the best vines for survival.

    The biggest contributor to the 2020 Old Vine Zin is Bedrock Vineyard, which boasts vines up to 130 years old. The Bedrock team also tapped Esola Vineyard in Amador County (planted in the 1960s), Schmiedt Road (1910s), and Evangelho and Nervo, both of which date back to the 1890s. 

    This is more than a gorgeous Zin from an iconic producer: It’s a tribute to California’s winemaking history, and to what time and dedication can bring to the bottle.