Vinyes Tortuga
Doolittle 2020
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: Barbera… from Spain! The folks at Vinyes Tortuga planted these traditionally Italian grapes in Rabós, Catalonia, taking the whole bunch of uncrushed grapes and giving them the carbonic maceration treatment before being pressed together into amfora and transferred into oak. The result: a light and bright wine juicy with blackberries and cherries, with notes of dried fruit and toasty walnuts.
Grape Variety: Barbera
Region: Catalonia, Spain
Tastes like: Blackberry, sultanas, golden raisins, & dried figs
Best with: Tapas, cocido, cochinillo
Size: 750 ml
Alc Content: 13.5%
made in spain by
Vinyes Tortuga
Vinyes Tortuga is Dido & Jurriaan Morsink, a couple from Amsterdam who have made wine literally all over the world. Eventually they settled down in Catalonia, Spain and purchased 9.5 hectares of vineyards in Alt-Empordà, making their first vintage with their own grapes in 2018. They also have the project of Negoce wines called Fruita Analogica.
a closer look
Behind the Bottle
Dido & Jurriaan have worked for big industrial companies as well as for small boutique wineries but it was their time with Joan Ramon Escoda that really changed their approach to winemaking and introduced them to the world of natural wine. There they learned that in order to make good natural wine, they learned that the focus needed to be on the vineyard, working as naturally as possible to produce high quality grapes.