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.
La Grange aux Belles
Former geologist Marc Houtin founded La Grange aux Belles in Anjou in 2004, and together with partners Julien Bresteau and Gérald Peau, now farms fifteen organic hectares of black schist to make some of the Loire's most vital natural wines.
Le Batossay
Baptiste Cousin farms 4.5 hectares in Anjou with horses and old-vine intuition, making zero-sulfur natural wines that carry the spirit of his father Olivier Cousin's legendary natural-wine legacy into a new generation.
Agnès et René Mosse
Former Tours wine-bar owners became Anjou's natural-wine standard-bearers, farming schist slopes biodynamically and handing the cellar to their two sons.
Le Temps d'Aimer
François Maudet and Romain Jos craft transparent, mineral-driven natural wines from 2.7 hectares of slate-rich Anjou vineyards, guided by friendship and a shared belief that the best wine requires as little interference as possible.
Les Terres Blanches
Benoit and Celine Blet founded Les Terres Blanches in 2004 in Oiron at the gates of Anjou, farming 10 biodynamic hectares of schist and limestone soils with Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, and Gamay de Bouze, replanting half the estate from their own massale selections.