Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Fabien Jouves farms 20 biodynamic hectares on the limestone heights of Cahors, producing Malbec-driven natural wines of remarkable freshness and precision that have made him one of southwest France's most exciting young voices.

Former architects Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa left Turin for a remote village in Baix Penedes, where they rescue old vines of obscure native varieties and make some of Spain's most distinctive zero-zero natural wines.

The Piedmont farm where the late Stefano Bellotti turned a single hectare into one of Italy's defining biodynamic estates, now carried on by his daughter Ilaria.

A leading Austrian biodynamic vigneronne in Gols, crafting energetic, low-sulfur reds and skin-contact whites from indigenous Burgenland varieties.

Czech-born winemaker Martin Pohl has farmed a remote 185-acre Lake County mountain property biodynamically since 2007, making Demeter-certified, sulfite-free natural wines at elevation from volcanic soils with a philosophy rooted in healing agriculture.

A husband-and-wife team spent a decade bringing tired Corbières soils back to life, then went biodynamic and additive-free in the wild garrigue near Narbonne.

Seventh-generation Aurélien Laherte farms 10.5 biodynamic hectares across 75 parcels in Chavot, Champagne, vinifying plot by plot in old Burgundy barrels without malolactic fermentation to produce grower Champagnes of startling terroir precision.

Claude and Etienne Courtois farm over 40 grape varieties on flinty Sologne soils, making zero-input natural wines that have defined the Loire's radical edge since Claude began organic farming in the 1970s.

Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.

Federico Orsi left consulting to run a biodynamic estate in the Colli Bolognesi in 2005, farming 15 hectares of Pignoletto and making unfined, native-yeast wines including a beloved sur-lie sparkler.

On the lowest land in Austria, the Michlits family runs Angus cattle, ancient grains, and vines together as one living Demeter farm spanning the Hungarian border.

Pierpaolo Messina farms 30 hectares of biodynamic vineyards in Noto's Contrada Buonivini, producing parcel-by-parcel Nero d'Avola and Moscato Bianco that redefine southeastern Sicily.