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.
MonteStregone
Alessandro Gallo and Roberto Orsi make concentrated Barbera d'Asti and Dolcetto d'Acqui from a three-hectare south-facing hillside vineyard in the thermal spa town of Acqui Terme, on a hill where local legend claims the last Piedmontese witches once gathered.
La Stoppa
Elena Pantaleoni has stewarded La Stoppa's 50 Emilia-Romagna hectares since 1991, uprooting international varieties in favour of native Barbera, Bonarda and Malvasia to produce age-worthy, zero-sulfite natural wines of uncompromising character.
Ercole
An everyday-Piedmont label built with a generations-old Monferrato growers' cooperative, putting honest, old-vine wines in screw-cap liter bottles.
Andrea Scovero
A quiet fourth-generation artisan in the Asti hills, Andrea Scovero farms six steep hectares organically, making Barbera with no added sulfites and increasingly working in amphora.