Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Former Australian ballet dancer Paul Old has spent two decades tracking down lost Languedoc parcels, building a 20-hectare biodynamic estate that produces some of the Corbières and Roussillon's most compelling natural wines.

A pioneering biodynamic Bordeaux estate near Blaye, in the Hubert family since 1895 and certified biodynamic since 2000.

An eleventh-generation Alsatian vigneron in Pfaffenheim working horse-ploughed grand cru parcels and bottling sulfur-free, fully natural cuvees.

Matija Žerjav, known simply as Matic, farms 9 organic hectares in the village of Malečnik in Slovenia's Štajerska wine region, championing the native Šipon grape and low-intervention winemaking in amphora and stainless steel with the energy of a third-generation natural winemaker.

A tiny biodynamic Catalan estate in Verdu making zero-sulfite, additive-free wines from Cabernet Sauvignon, Trepat and Chardonnay on limestone-clay soils.

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

Mathias Guerrero Abras founded L'Erba d'Agram in 2019 near Aniane in the Languedoc, farming 5 hectares biodynamically and making zero-sulfur wines with nothing but grapes.

British-born Jo Jefferies farms just 4 hectares of volcanic basalt soil around the village of Caux in the Hérault, making intensely mineral natural wines that have earned him a reputation as one of Languedoc's most compelling producers.

Zack Klug and Patrick Vaughn grow and vinify Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Riesling on 4.5 acres of New York's Niagara Escarpment with foot-crushing, old barrels, and a philosophy that puts spontaneity ahead of safety nets.

Patrick Sullivan farms biodynamically in the Strzelecki Ranges of Gippsland, Victoria, crafting single-site Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from volcanic and clay soils with minimal intervention and no unnecessary additions.

Marie-Pierre and Eric Plumet farm 38 biodynamic hectares on the Massif d'Uchaux plateau in the southern Rhône, the first estate certified by Demeter in the region and still one of the few in the entire Vaucluse.

Eighth-generation Vincent Alexis turned a bulk Bergerac estate biodynamic, replanting forgotten local grapes and making dry, sweet and skin-contact wines.