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.
Maria and Sepp Muster
Maria and Sepp Muster farm ten hectares of Demeter-certified biodynamic vineyards above Leutschach in Southern Styria, crafting textural, mineral whites from the region's distinctive Opok marl soil.
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Michael Gindl farms Austria's Weinviertel biodynamically with horses and sheep, producing mineral-driven wines from a family estate his ancestors have worked since 1807.
Andreas Gsellmann
Third-generation Gols grower Andreas Gsellmann farms 19 biodynamic hectares under Respekt, working Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt to express Burgenland terroir without additives.
Früg
Named after a 1960s dance, Früg is the lively, liter-bottled natural line from organic Burgenland grower Josef Wurzinger in collaboration with Jenny & François.
Nibiru
Josef Schenter and Julia Nather founded Nibiru in 2015 in the cool northern reaches of Kamptal, Austria, farming 8 hectares to Demeter biodynamic standards and vinifying spontaneously in a mix of stainless steel and old wood for wines of crystalline mountain precision.
Koppitsch
A husband-and-wife estate on the shores of Lake Neusiedl making biodynamically inspired, hand-crafted natural wines from a family vineyard with five centuries of history.
Markus Altenburger
From a multi-generational farming family in Jois, Markus Altenburger farms 17 hectares of certified organic Leithaberg vines biodynamically, coaxing site-specific Blaufränkisch and skin-contact whites from ancient limestone and slate soils above Lake Neusiedl in Burgenland.
Claus Preisinger
From Gols on Lake Neusiedl, Claus Preisinger turned a young start into one of Austria's leading biodynamic addresses, fermenting Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt wild and bare.
Christina Netzl
A London wine-trade internship and an oenology degree sent Christina Netzl home to Goettlesbrunn, where she added a low-intervention range to a Carnuntum estate farmed organically since 2013.
Gut Oggau
An Austrian estate where every cuvee is a fictional family member with its own face and personality, made from biodynamic Burgenland vineyards around a restored 17th-century manor.
Heinrich
From a single hectare in 1990 to roughly 90 spread across Lake Neusiedl, Gernot and Heike Heinrich turned Burgenland into proof that Austrian reds and Demeter farming belong together.
Judith Beck
A leading Austrian biodynamic vigneronne in Gols, crafting energetic, low-sulfur reds and skin-contact whites from indigenous Burgenland varieties.