Posts tagged Paraschos
Canary in a Coalmine
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop"
Paraschos “Clàr di lune” and marinated trouts
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 2nd 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.
Vitovska!!!
Wow! Vitovska, Schioppettino & Ribolla Gialla! Andrew, now you are talking. I never thought anyone in the UK would have ever mentioned these wonderful grapes. Andrew Barrow wrote a nice review - here - for three of probably the most representative grapes from this corner of North East Italy: Friuli Venezia Giulia, FVG.
I my humble opinion, though I’m a bit biased, there are many more superlative producers that I would like to mention:
Vitovska - Zidarich, Skerk, Vodopivec
Ribolla Gialla - Gravner, Radikon, Paraschos
Schioppettino - Giovanni Venica, Petrussa
Give me a buzz whenever you would like to visit this side of the World and sample these extremely nice wines.
(pic courtesy of spittoon)
First day back at school
Sorry folks, I’ve been on holiday and I usually completely switch off.
We have been busy with lots of friends staying at Villa Giustina during these two weeks: these pics are taken while visiting Radikon and Paraschos, two reknown skin contact Collio winemakers. We drove to San Floriano del Collio by Vespa and my XT500 and spent two hours listening first to Sasa Radikon and then Alexis Paraschos while they introduced their wines and wine making procedures. They belong to the natural wine producers family and are small niche winemakers.
We sampled Radikon Ribolla Gialla and Jakot. Then Paraschos Merlot and Pinot Grigio. Wonderful products with their “amber” almost “golden” colours. Fantastic afternoon.
