Cline Small Berry Mourvedre 2002
Varietal: Mourvedre
Vineyard: Cline
Region: Other California, California
The original cult wine! The 2002 Small Berry Mourvèdre shows intense jammy flavors with overtones of tobacco, plum and eucalyptus-mint. With plenty of flesh and a firm balanced structure of acid and fine-grained tannins, this wine is excellent now and will age well over the next five to seven years.
Vineyards
The fruit for Small Berry Mourvèdre comes from a small block of our vineyard with low yields that consistently produces one of our most complex and concentrated Mourvèdres. The head-pruned vines are at least 100 years old and are planted on their original rootstock, making this one of California's most historic vineyards. This wine exemplifies the unique character of the varietal while showcasing the elegant flavors that are contributed by the phylloxera resistant sandy soils described as our singular Oakley terroir. The proximity of this vineyard to Eucalyptus trees also contributes to the signature of this wine.
Cline Cellars dry farms these ancient, head-pruned vines, continuing a practice employed by the Italian and Portuguese immigrants who planted this vineyard well before the turn of the last century.
