Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 is a wild-wine passion project started by four friends in Abruzzo. They ferment with indigenous yeasts, work in amphora and old wooden presses, and add nothing, making raw, characterful natural wines that channel their central-Italian terroir.

It is in the ruggedly beautiful hills near Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy about 8km from the crystalline Adriatic sea...

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.

Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.

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.