Though Chris and I tend to be the outward face of Bedrock one cannot get a real sense of how Bedrock wines are made without a humble bow to the small group who bust their behinds for us almost every single day. Though possessing different personalities and strengths we can say that a golden thread of thoughtfulness, intrepidness and kindness runs through the group as a whole. -MTP
Cody

Associate Winemaker Cody Rasmussen was born in Arizona and raised in Iowa, places that respectively instilled in him his lifelong loves of collecting rocks and reading (not much else to do in Iowa). He double-majored in political science and economics at Williams College in Massachusetts, where he met his first intellectual nemesis, Chemistry 201—a cruel irony a few years later when he had to self-teach about redox reactions and polar-covalent bonds in the cellar.
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Growing up in a Virginia wine-growing family, Assistant Winemaker Katie Rouse was always interested in the culture of winemaking, as it brought together “an incredible ragtag group of craftspeople, musicians, and life-enthusiasts” around her. But despite spending fall afternoons after soccer practice washing picking bins in the rain, somehow the romance of the industry didn’t appeal to her – until a college class called “Terroir” attracted her Geology major self to the creative and scientific possibilities of winemaking.
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Viticulturist Jake Neustadt grew up in the East Bay and came of age backpacking in the Sierras and annoying his neighbors with an overly loud garage band. His higher education at UC Davis began with a focus on journalism and international relations but, upon realizing the bleak realities of those career paths, quickly gravitated toward agriculture and winemaking.
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Sarah Prior joined our team in 2021, but her wine experience started much earlier. As the daughter of a wine distributor, Sarah was fascinated by how wine created challenging conversations around the dinner table and took her family to all parts of the world. Wine has taken her all around the world as well, from her hometown of Bielefeld, Germany, on to Berlin, then Weimar to study Media and Marketing at Bauhaus University, then to Bordeaux for her winemaking program – with stints in England, New Zealand, and Sweden along the way.
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You’d never guess after a tasting with Jackie Sotelo that she is fairly new to the wine industry. Her knowledge and quick-study nature are matched with effortless hospitality. Jackie has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of her life, save for two years in New York City and a post-college internship in Paris (her French is flawless, for those interested in hearing all about Bedrock wines en française). A UC Berkeley graduate with degrees in French and Political Economy of Industrialized Societies, Jackie first got into wine during her travels throughout Europe and through work with garagiste winemakers in San Francisco during her work in urban planning. Her wine love skyrocketed, though, when she met her future husband Gustavo, the Associate Winemaker at Scribe in Sonoma, and became immersed in the wine community.
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Our Tasting Room Manager Grant Wood is a man of many talents, from his past life as a San Francisco DJ (which has significantly benefitted our Hooker House playlist) to pumpovers at the winery on days the tasting room is closed. Grant grew up in a 1950s ranch house in the Napa countryside and was introduced to food and wine during his high school days working in catering. While working at Cardinale, a bottle of 2000 Howell Mountain Cabernet Franc changed the way he looked at wine, and his wine career took off.
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Seph grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—as he says, home to America’s football team and the happiest cows on earth. A population of European immigrants with healthy appetites for dairy made cheese an acceptable entrée for most meals. Growing up, his parents drank wine on occasion, but it wasn’t until Seph moved to California in 2015 that he got to experience friends opening bottles and talking about what they were drinking.
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Morgan’s dog Caritas, a 16th century Counter-Reformationist Catholic masked as a majestic Great Pyrenees, lived a glorious 13 years before passing in June of 2019. Her days were spent engaging in her favorite activities: showcasing her divine right of dominance over “zee horrid Huguenots!” (aka Kinley and Maya), silently judging the Bedrock team for their innumerable shortcomings, and graciously forgiving said shortcomings when peace offerings of the culinary sort were extended. She was the absolute best, and the namesake for Cuvée Karatas.
Kinley and Maya

Cody’s dogs Kinley and Maya are Golden Retrievers whose primary goal in life, besides napping, is to greet every person that walks into the winery. Kinley’s favorite activity is napping under Cody’s desk; Maya’s is following the winery crew around in search of spilled wine. Their favorite foods are anything stolen from Bedrock harvest interns, whole sticks of butter and/or chunks of Parmigiano. Kinley's favorite beverage is beer, especially after a long harvest day, and Maya’s is mid-fermentation Bedrock Heritage Wine.
Busy

Busy is, as her name suggests, a busy little bee: a free spirit and accomplished vocalist living in the body of a Miniature Schnauzer. When not gallivanting alongside Jake throughout the head-train vines of Contra Costa, Busy can most likely be found assisting Jake’s wife Ellen make hand-sewn clothing or practicing her arpeggios in the Neustadt family yard.