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.
Andreas Gsellmann
Third-generation Gols grower Andreas Gsellmann farms 19 biodynamic hectares under Respekt, working Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt to express Burgenland terroir without additives.
Milan Nestarec
Milan Nestarec farms 24 hectares organically in Velke Bilovice, South Moravia, turning loess-and-clay soils into playful, technically precise natural wines that have made him the most internationally recognized Czech winemaker of his generation.
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.
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.