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.
Le Raisin & l'Ange
Antonin Azzoni continues his father Gilles's pioneering zero-sulfur work in the Ardeche, farming a small family plot and sourcing from neighboring organic growers to make wines that have cheered hearts in these volcanic valleys since 2000.
Grégory Guillaume
In the limestone hills of the Ardèche, Grégory Guillaume makes idealistic natural wines that work with the elements rather than against them.
Sylvain Bock
Sylvain Bock settled in the volcanic hills of the Ardèche in 2010 and has since built a reputation for zero-zero Syrah, Grenache, and Gamay made with deep respect for the land and none of the shortcuts. One of natural wine's quiet greats.
Hervé Souhaut
From granite slopes in the hills above the Rhône, Hervé Souhaut coaxes ethereal, perfumed reds out of century-old Syrah and Gamay at Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet.
La Boutanche Martin Texier
Martin Texier, son of northern Rhône legend Eric Texier, launched his own domaine in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban in 2014 and makes native-yeast, zero-sulfur wines from 5 hectares planted in clay, schist, gneiss, and granite.
Andrea Calek
A Czech émigré turned Ardèche natural-wine pioneer, Andrea Calek farms five chemical-free hectares and bottles Syrah, Grenache and Merlot with no added sulfites, fining or filtration.
Anders Frederik Steen
A Noma-trained Dane turned Ardèche vigneron names each one-time-only cuvee after poetry and song, adding nothing and taking nothing away from the grapes.