Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature
Portraits and interviews with the world's finest natural wine producers — farmers and winemakers who work in harmony with terroir, minimal intervention, and a deep respect for the land.
Lammidia
Davide Gentile and Marco Giuliani started Lammidia in 2013 on a sun-blasted plateau at 700 metres in the Gran Sasso National Park, Abruzzo, producing up to 30 cuvées annually in steel, concrete and amphora with zero SO2 under the motto 'uva e basta.'
Luca Bevilacqua
Abruzzo sommelier-turned-winemaker Luca Bevilacqua vinifies his father's clay-soiled vines in Atessa to produce pure, high-drinkability Montepulciano and Trebbiano with zero additions.
Tenuta Cipressi
The Cipressi family has farmed organically in Abruzzo since 1990, producing BioVegan-certified wines from grapes grown on their estate in Scafa -- Montepulciano, Cerasuolo, and the rare skin-contact Moscato they call John Doe.
Amorotti
Next door to legendary Valentini, Gaetano Carboni vinifies in a 16th-century cellar beneath the family palazzo, fermenting noble Trebbiano Abruzzese with the wild yeasts living in its walls.
Emidio Pepe
For sixty years this Torano Nuovo estate has hand-destemmed every grape, aged in glass-lined cement, and recorked decades-old bottles by hand before they leave the cellar.
Vini Rabasco
Iole Rabasco, former lawyer turned biodynamic vigneron, farms 3.5 hectares in Pianella, Abruzzo, making zero-sulfur Trebbiano and Montepulciano without additions of any kind.
Cantina Indigeno | Wild Natural Wine
Today we are talking about wild wines. A natural wine primal mantra welcomes you as soon as you land on Cantina Indigeno’s homepage: “In the vats…
Agricola Cirelli – Francesco's Dream
It is in the ruggedly beautiful hills near Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy about 8km from the crystalline Adriatic sea...
Controvento
On a butterfly reserve near the Adriatic in Abruzzo, Vincenzo Di Meo makes certified-organic wines with native yeast, no SO2, and no fining or filtering.
De Fermo
Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.
Passione Natura
Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.