Tutti Frutti Ananas "Toranja" Vin de France Blanc 2022

A direct press of Grenache Gris from a parcel planted over pure schist, this carries a gentle spritz and offers real refreshment through a combination of minerals, lemons and sea salt. Fermented in stainless steel, aged in concrete. The wine ferments naturally and is bottled unfiltered with either no sulfur or a tiny amount at bottling.

A toranja is a grapefruit in Portuguese. This wine is made within the Collioure appellation but is intentionally declassified to Vin de France. 

Tutti Frutti Ananas is a collaborative project between three vignerons in Collioure and Banyuls: Manuel di Vecchi Staraz of Vinyer de la Ruca, Zé Tafé of La Cave des Nomades and Joachim Roque of Domaine Carterole. As the three produce very limited quantities of wine from their respective estates (the steep schist hills of Collioure/Banyuls are notoriously low-yielding), the goal of the project is to make a more approachable expression of these terroirs.

The hodgepodge name is inspired by the collaborator's diverse backgrounds: Manu is Italian, Zé Portuguese and Joachim French, though he would consider himself Catalan. In such, all the wines bear the names of fruits in their native tongues of Italian, Portuguese and Catalan. They are fermented naturally and bottled unfiltered with little to no sulfur added only at bottling.