Bedrock Summer/Fall Release - 8/4/15

Morgan_Twain-Peterson · July 30, 2015, 4:02am

Indeed, it will likely be on the Winter Release.

david_dickerson · July 30, 2015, 6:24am

Cuvee Karatas Can’t wait. Still sitting on some 09’s. Morgan should I pop one soon?

JFPelletier · July 30, 2015, 6:46pm

First time buyer here, very excited!

JF

Nate_Simon · July 30, 2015, 8:19pm

If you do, please tell us how it is. Still sitting on mine!

Rich_Brown · July 30, 2015, 8:44pm

For what it’s worth, below are Morgan and Chris’s notes from their library tasting back in February of this year. I’m going to try and keep my hands off of them for another couple years if possible.

Rich

2009 Cuvee Karatas White Wine: This wine is just showing a glimpse of the Semillon character behind the dense primary fruit and oak and could use another 3-4 years in bottle at a minimum. Chris’s note is probably the best ,”starting to drink but unlike
the 2008 I would hold this unless you had a rich pork dish and gave it a good decant. so much stuffing, this will be great. I just think you should hold. crackling with flavor and potential. flower spice.”

Brian_Tuite · July 30, 2015, 9:29pm

I just showed the release list to Steve Sodini and he said “My wine’s not even on there. It’s so special that Morgan’s keeping it all for himself!”

J_a_y_H_a_c_k · July 30, 2015, 9:46pm

Never having had Bedrock, I sent that Chris guy an email when I got his waiting list warning asking him if his wine was any good.
I was polite so I did not mention that he lost the Bedrock vs. Carlisle poll by a 52-48 landslide.
However, I have so much Carlisle that if I drink one bottle a month, I’m pushing 80 years old before I’m finished with what I have.

So do you think that I should order any Bedrock if I get lucky and they offer me some this year after the rest of you regulars scarf it all up?

Dan_Hammer · July 30, 2015, 10:03pm

PaulMills · July 31, 2015, 12:41am

Can we push this back a week for the sake of my credit card?

Brian_Tuite · July 31, 2015, 12:41am

Nah, just drink your Carlisle and let us handle the Bedrock.

Dave_H · July 31, 2015, 12:42am

I guess we’ll see the Wirz riesling in a future release? Really looking forward to that.

J_a_y_H_a_c_k · July 31, 2015, 12:47am

PS - he responded and proved he had a sense of humor.

PaulMills · July 31, 2015, 12:50am

That is what you think. You are now blackballed from Bedrock. More for us.

Jeffrey_Neal · July 31, 2015, 12:55am

August 4 is my birthday - Morgan and Chris should throw in a free bottle with my order as a birthday gift.

P_D_e_r_d_e_y_n · July 31, 2015, 1:12am

Serious answer is that it depends on what you are looking for. A few of the wines in this offering are really rare (Karatas, Carlisle, Gewurtz), a couple are fantastic SV Syrahs (Weil, Griffin), and a few are the amazing Heritage Blends (Pagani, Lorenzo, Evangelho) so it really depends on where you want to start. My advice would be that if you are fortunate enough to be offered anything you should take it all.

Brian_Tuite · July 31, 2015, 1:25am

For each of us!

Alan_Eden · July 31, 2015, 1:33am

Jay

Happy to send you a bottle to try, just have to wait on the weather

Alan

Michael_Martin · July 31, 2015, 1:39am

I think the Weill is more of a mixed blacks field blend. Not a Syrah. I had the '12 recently and it was excellent.

P_D_e_r_d_e_y_n · July 31, 2015, 2:51am

You are correct, from Morgan:

Though the vineyard is still mainly planted to Syrah (and is the backbone of the North Coast Syrah), we converted a small section of the vineyard to a recreated field blend of Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Alicante Bouschet, Grenache, Tempranillo, and Mourvedre.

He made the Weil “3 ways” Syrah from that vineyard and makes the mixed blacks. Either way the advice is the same, take everything you can get.

J_a_y_H_a_c_k · July 31, 2015, 11:17pm

Michael Martin:

Drew Goin:

I notice that it lists Carlisle Zinfandel. Hmm. In a vineyard with so many Mixed Blacks, how much will appear in the bottle?

Here’s Morgan’s notes on the 2013 from last year’s release.

2013 Carlisle Vineyard Zinfandel, Russian River Valley, planted 1934. If you are excited about seeing this vineyard on a Bedrock label you can only imagine my sheer joy. I count Mike and Kendall Officer as some of my closest friends and the wines from Carlisle occupy a large portion of my own cellar. Beyond this, Mike and I have spent many hours in vineyards together and he is one of the best ampelographers (the science of vine variety identification) I have ever met. So, when he called during harvest last year and said that he had a few extra tons that he simply did not have space for, I was thrilled to take them. Carlisle Vineyard is perhaps the most diverse vineyard I have seen (almost 40 varieties) and this wine comes from a section that is particularly heavy with Petite Sirah. It is one of many favorites from the vintage—opulent, dark, spicy and reflecting its proud Russian River Valley heritage. The only downside is that this could be the only vintage we make the wine (unless my Faustian bargain with Mephistopheles comes to fruition and Mike gets a little extra crop every year!).

I met Mike at his winery a few years ago and we talked about identifying the wines in the vineyard. He said there were a few he had to send to a DNA analysis company to figure out that had something like 3000 grape exemplars. One of the grapes came back with a variation on “we have no idea,” so “zinfandel” from that vineyard will always be a novel experience.