Sounds like it died back to the ground, but I wouldn't be too quick to prune away the seemingly dead part yet. It may come back yet. Give it some more time. I would also suggest giving it winter protection for the next two winter seasons until it's become better established.

Thanks Gene. I'll give it until maybe May or June, do you think that should be enough time??

Here in Albuquerque my pomegranates ('Wonderful') are not showing any life yet... too early (these are 40 + yr.old bushes). One year when it got minus 19 degrees here they did die back but grew back again from the ground as my fig tree does at times. Maybe your's needs more time.. I also have a dwarf pomegranate & it too is still dormant.

Mine is a dwarf too. Bought it last year from Gurneys. I was thrilled that it had one teeny little pomegranate! It did not die back because we didn't have freezes this winter, and it now has two new little pomegranates. I did get cuttings for Wonderful and Palermo from UC Davis, and I'm trying to get those to root.

I'm pretty sure yours will come back to life!

Thanks Vieja. I think one of my figs did the same exact thing. Died back but is growing from the ground, if that the case is the poor thing ever going to get large?