Tutti Frutti Ananas Rose Magrana 2019

Tutti Frutti Ananas is a collaboration that sees Manuel of Vinyer de la Ruca team up with friends Zé Tafé of La Cave des Nomades and Joachim Roque of Domaine Carterole to make the kind of wines they like drinking by the Mediterranean down in Banyuls-sur-Mer.

The guys farm organically over a combination of sand, schist and quartz from vineyards both close to the sea and up in the mountains which loom above. They make the wines together in Les 9 Caves, a cooperative cellar they share in an old garage in the town’s centre. The wines ferment and age in large concrete vats and are bottled young, brimming with life.

A blend of Syrah, Carignan, Mourvèdre and Grenache Noir. Half the fruit was fermented as whole bunches for a week, the rest given a direct press. While incredibly light on its feet, the flavors are resolutely Mediterranean, the sunkissed fruit seasoned gently with savoury notes of sea salt and garrigue.