Posts tagged natural wine
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.
"Give Olivier Cousin our Help and Support"
Today I read this article by Christina Pickard and thought Canary in a Coalmine should post it because I feel Natural Wine deserves all the support it needs!
Please excuse the interruption to this week’s regular scheduling of the California Series. This is because something has come to my attention which is far more important than my boozy travels in North America.
Please allow me to re-introduce you to Olivier Cousin, one of the most respected natural/biodynamic winemakers in the Loire Valley. A year ago my friend Whitney and I visited him and his lovely family and it remains the most epic, wonderful winemaker visit we’ve ever had (for more on that, read these two posts). Personally, I found Olivier to be one of the most kind, generous, and admirable vigneron I’ve ever met, with an absolute respect for nature in every part of his winemaking process. Olivier makes wine the way his grandfather and his grandfather’s father’s father before that. To make it any other way (ie with chemicals and high-tech machinery) would not only be a betrayal of all that they worked for, but would pollute his land, his plants, his animals, and himself and his family.
Olivier Cousin and his son Baptiste at the Natural Wine Fair in London.
Read more here
(source winewithchristina)
