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.
Buddy Buddy
Out of a Berkeley cellar, Cassidy Miller co-ferments Mendocino grapes with apples and pears into low-alcohol, spontaneously fermented wines and ciders.
Old World Winery
Darek Trowbridge, great-grandson of Russian River Valley pioneer Giuseppe Martinelli, farms biodynamic century-old vines in Fulton and vinifies rare heritage grapes with foot-treading, native yeast, and zero filtration.
Brij Wines
Named for sommelier Rajat Parr's father, Brij is his negociant label, buying from organically farmed Central Coast vineyards and bottling them with almost no intervention.
Hobo Wine Company
Kenny Likitprakong's Sonoma-based negociant project making honest, affordable wines from longstanding grower relationships across California.
Deux Punx
Two aging punks moonlighting as Napa winemakers, turning native-ferment juice into quirky, artist-labeled natural wines.
Caleb Leisure
A former NYU fiction student turned California natural winemaker, Caleb Leisure ferments organic Sierra Foothills fruit in Georgian qvevri buried in his cellar floor.
Absentee Winery
Founder Avi Deixler won a planning fight to open the only registered winery in Marin's North Marin Wine District, building a reputation for pristine reds made with grapes and nothing else.
Dan Marioni
A fifth-generation Sonoma native and ex-engineer who learned the 'nothing added, nothing taken away' Coturri Way and now bottles native-yeast, zero-sulfur wines under hand-carved linocut labels.
Raft Wines
Jennifer Reichardt launched Raft Wines in 2016 in Sonoma County, sourcing certified-organic fruit from across California to make low-intervention, food-friendly natural wines at honest prices.
Forlorn Hope
From Rorick Heritage Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, Matthew Rorick makes spontaneously fermented natural wines from California's overlooked grapes, regions and styles.
Purity Wine
Noel Diaz founded Purity Wine in Richmond, California in 2013, building a collective of natural winemakers committed to zero-zero production and opening the natural wine world to a broader, more diverse community.
Iruai
A husband-and-wife project pioneering alpine grape varieties in the mountains around Mount Shasta, far from California's familiar wine country.