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.
Cruse Wine Co.
A molecular biology graduate turned sparkling-wine cult figure, Michael Cruse founded Cruse Wine Co. in Petaluma to make fresh, serious, distinctly Californian wine, including old-vine Valdiguie.
Toshokan
A Berkeley-based natural wine library curating single-vineyard bottles from across Northern California with minimal intervention and deep respect for place.
Vinca Minor
Berkeley winery founded in 2013 by Jason Charles, making small-batch natural wines from historic Northern California vineyards with a focus on old-vine Carignan and Mendocino Chardonnay.
Glassmaker
Founded in 2015 by Jonathan Walton, Glassmaker makes spontaneously fermented, low-sulfur California wines from organically and biodynamically farmed vineyards.
Oeno
Amy Atwood's Oeno label sources from biodynamic Russian River Valley vineyards in Sonoma, fermenting with native yeasts in neutral oak to craft unfined, unfiltered California natural wines with zero additives.
Inconnu
Self-taught winemaker Laura Brennan Bissell, who found natural wine in Barcelona, makes elegant, low-intervention California bottlings under the name Inconnu, the unknown.
Woody's
Third-generation Sonoma farmer Woody Hambrecht applies his family's organic legacy to dealcoholized sparkling wines built for celebration.
Dirty & Rowdy
An ex-tech-sales blogger turned cult California winemaker who made Mourvedre the standard-bearer of the natural wine movement.
La Clarine Farm
Hank Beckmeyer and Caroline Hoel farm ten organic acres at 2,600 feet in California's Sierra Foothills, making small-batch natural wines guided by the do-nothing philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka.
Wavy Wines
Sparked by a birthday spent tasting natural wine around the world, two Angelenos built a brand around piquette and breezy summer bottlings made to be drunk young.
So Far Out
Andrew Jones of Field Recordings teamed with an organic Central Coast grower and an LA wine veteran to make easygoing, sustainable California wine that does not cost the earth.
AmByth Estate
On a dry-farmed Templeton ridge, a Welsh shepherd's son foot-stomps amphora-aged wines with native yeast and zero added sulfur, the first Demeter-certified estate in Paso Robles.