2022 Cimarron Vineyard Mourvedre

We love Mourvedre at Chateau Tumbleweed. It’s a fairly vigorous and later-ripening varietal, which can pose some challenges in our high-desert vineyards – especially during difficult monsoons and colder years. But when it all works out, Arizona Mourvedre is truly something special. With its brighter red fruit, light spice, earthy notes and slightly wild edge, this varietal is a great match with our Arizona terroir. This bottling from the Cimarron Vineyard in Kansas Settlement (just south of Willcox) has the wild, funky spice so typical of Mourvedre in AZ, but that character is more tempered at Cimarron, giving way for the grape’s pure, clean fruit to shine through. The 2022 still has a vivid nose of pomegranate and spicy raspberry, but it has a little has more body and weight than the 2021. There’s something magical in the way the spice, fruit and texture come together in the finish! Only seven barrels produced.