Last night I had a chance to taste another wonderful wine from this side of the “Bel Paese”, the beautiful region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy. The Collio area is renowned for its SuperWhites: some still unknown to the wine world, certainly underrated.

This winemaker belongs to the natural wines family and the wine I sampled is part of the 2^nd of the two lines he produces. Its name is so poetic: Clàr di Lune, Moonlight!

Paraschos has been making wines in the heart of the Collio area since 1998 and adopted the biodynamic philosophy in the early days. There’s no use of herbicides nor fertilizer: the grapes end up in oak vats or terracotta amphoras without the use of yeasts, preservatives nor colourings.

Once opened, Clàr di Lune shows a wonderful amber colour result of natural wine making and an unfiltered, unclarified bottling procedure.

It’s so great still discovering top quality wines so close to my home town!

The food to match was marinated trout that I grilled and served to my hungry crew. We like fish as simple as possible and I generally create a marinade and then simply grill it. Good quality food generally need not much!

I feel that trout is so underrated and ignored nowadays: it’s a lovely fish, at all not expensive, nice and firm meat and very flavourful.

More recipes here if you like trout.

This time I had a little help from my favourite spice supplier: Seasoned Pioneers.