Tutti Frutti Ananas - 2021 - Sparkling LLOPIT

Tutti Frutti Ananas - 2021 - Sparkling LLOPITMerlotRoussillon, FranceTutti Frutti Ananas is a collaborative project originally founded by 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 (Tafé has since exited the project). 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 Tutti Frutti Ananas was to make a more approachable expression of the area's local terroirs. The idea came about when Joachim, local to the area and whose family had worked with the cave cooperative for years, retrieved an additional eight hectares of vines. Rather than entering them into the coop, he proposed to his friends to start a new venture. Unlike the vines they work for their estates, most of the fruit comes from the neighboring sector of Saint-André. These parcels can be worked mec