producer profile

<p>Tutti Frutti Ananas is a <glossary term="Négociant" title="729">n&eacute;gociant</glossary> project helmed by Manuel di Vecchi Staraz.&nbsp;As the wines&nbsp;produced from his own <glossary term="Estate" title="427">estate</glossary> Vinyer de la Ruca&nbsp;are extremely limited,&nbsp;&nbsp;(the steep <glossary title="933">schist</glossary> hills of <glossary title="319">Collioure</glossary>/<glossary title="135">Banyuls</glossary> are notoriously low<span class="zalup"><span><span>-</span><glossary title="1129">yielding</glossary>)</span></span>, the goal of Tutti Frutti Ananas&nbsp;is to offer a more approachable&nbsp;expression of&nbsp;the area&#39;s local&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary title="1026">terroirs</glossary><span>.</span></span></span>&nbsp;</p> <p>The vast majority&nbsp;of the fruit comes from&nbsp;the sector of Saint-Andr&eacute;. Unlike in <glossary term="Banyuls" title="135">Banyuls</glossary> and&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary term="Collioure" title="319">Collioure</glossary><span>,</span></span></span>&nbsp;<glossary term="Parcel" title="760">parcels</glossary>&nbsp;here can be worked&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary term="Mechanization" title="645">mechanically</glossary><span>&nbsp;and the</span></span></span>&nbsp;soils of decomposed&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary title="933">schists</glossary><span>,</span></span></span> <glossary title="842">quartz</glossary> and&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary title="909">sand&nbsp;</glossary></span></span>are higher <glossary title="1129">yielding</glossary> than the traditional <glossary title="1022">terraced</glossary> vineyards on pure&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary title="933">schist</glossary><span>.</span></span></span>&nbsp;Manuel&nbsp;also contributes a bit of&nbsp;fruit from his&nbsp;<glossary title="760">parcels&nbsp;</glossary>in&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary term="Collioure" title="319">Collioure</glossary><span>,</span></span></span> most notably for &quot;Magrano&quot; and &quot;Mirtillo&quot;.&nbsp;</p> <p>The hodgepodge name Tutti Frutti Ananas is inspired by the original collaborators&#39;&nbsp;Italian, Portuguese and Catalan backgrounds, with&nbsp;each <glossary term="Cuvée" title="363">cuv&eacute;e</glossary>&nbsp;named after a fruit in one of those three languages.&nbsp;They are <glossary title="441">fermented</glossary> naturally and <glossary title="185">bottled</glossary>&nbsp;<glossary title="447">unfiltered</glossary>&nbsp;with little to no <glossary title="993">sulfur</glossary> added only at&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary title="185">bottling</glossary><span>.</span></span></span> The wine&#39;s <glossary title="573">label</glossary> clearly indicates&nbsp;if&nbsp;<glossary title="993">S02</glossary> was used or not; at this point the whites tend to see a gram at <glossary term="Bottling" title="185">bottling</glossary> while the reds are always <glossary term="Bottling" title="185">bottled</glossary> without&nbsp;<span class="zalup"><span><glossary term="Sulfites" title="993">sulfur</glossary><span>.</span></span></span>&nbsp;</p>