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2022 Mourvèdre Bottle

2022 Mourvèdre

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The 2022 Tablas Creek Vineyard Mourvèdre is Tablas Creek’s nineteenth varietal bottling of Mourvèdre. We use most of our Mourvèdre in our Esprit de Tablas each year. However, we feel that the Mourvèdre grape, often pigeonholed as a blending varietal, can produce remarkable varietal wines, and when we can, we try to reserve a limited quantity of particularly characteristic lots of Mourvèdre for a single-varietal bottling.

Reviews coming soon

Tasting Notes

The 2022 Mourvedre leaps from the glass with redcurrant, new leather, black plum and mocha notes. The mouth is lovely: salty minerals, black raspberry, loamy earth, and cocoa powder. The finish is long, with notes of cocoa powder, red currant, and lingering loamy minerality. Delicious now and only likely to become more so over time. Drink over the next 15 years.

Technical Details

Appellation

  • Adelaida District Paso Robles

Technical Notes

  • 12.5% Alcohol by Volume
  • 306 Cases Produced

Blend

  • 100% Mourvedre

Certifications

  • roc-gold
  • ccof-organic

Recipes & Pairings

Recipe Suggestions

Food Pairings

  • Richly flavored stews
  • Pork chops with fruit reduction
  • Asian preparation of red meats (i.e., beef stir fry)
  • Bittersweet chocolate desserts

Production Notes

Our Mourvèdre grapes were grown on our 120-acre Regenerative Organic Certified® estate vineyard.

The 2022 vintage was our third year of drought, but because the rain that we received came early, the vines showed good health though with cluster counts down by about 15%. A cool first half of the summer was followed by our hottest-ever August and September, producing an early start and an even earlier finish to harvest. The vintage's extremely low yields produced concentrated flavors despite pale colors, noteworthy texture, and intense fruit.

The Mourvèdre grapes were destemmed and then fermented using native yeasts in fermented in large wooden tanks. After three weeks, they were pressed and moved to 1200-gallon foudres to complete their fermentation. The Mourvèdre lots were blended in spring of 2023, aged for an additional year in neutral oak, and bottled in April 2024.

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