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.
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.
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.
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.
Meinklang
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.
Andreas Ziniel
Trained across South Africa, Germany and Switzerland, 'Zini' farms 15 hectares near the Zicksee, making fresh, low-intervention reds and whites with short macerations.
Christian Tschida
An Austrian natural-wine star, Christian Tschida makes zero-sulfur, unmanipulated wines by Lake Neusiedl and calls himself a tuner, not a winemaker.