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.
Domaine du Mortier
Self-taught brothers Cyril and Fabien Boisard turned a teenage fascination into one of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil's pioneering natural-wine estates.
Domaine du Bel Air
Five generations on, Pierre Gauthier and his son Rodolphe plow Benais by draft horse to coax deep, ageworthy Cabernet Franc from Bourgueil's clay-limestone tuffeau.
Manoir de la Tête Rouge
Guillaume Reynouard's biodynamic estate in Le Puy-Notre-Dame brings 17th-century Saumur terroir to life through Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, and rare Pineau d'Aunis with zero added sulfur.
Francois Blanchard
A jazz musician turned vigneron, Francois Blanchard farms a single old-vine parcel of clay and silex in the Touraine and makes intuitive, low-intervention wines that he describes in the language of music.
Sébastien David
A 15th-generation grower in a family farming since 1634, Sébastien David makes biodynamic, sulfur-free Cabernet Franc in clay and amphorae in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil.
Domaine Calvez Bobinet
An eighth-generation Saumur vigneron and a former professional dancer farm under four hectares organically, aging Cabernet Franc and Chenin in cellars carved straight into the region's tuffeau limestone.
Claire and Florent Bejon
Two former amateurs turned vignerons farm tiny Cabernet Franc and Chenin parcels on the banks of the Vienne, bottling Chinon-area wines with no additives at all.
Les Terres Blanches
Benoit and Celine Blet founded Les Terres Blanches in 2004 in Oiron at the gates of Anjou, farming 10 biodynamic hectares of schist and limestone soils with Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, and Gamay de Bouze, replanting half the estate from their own massale selections.