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.
Wild Jag
Adam Beck brings a punk musician's DIY ethic to natural winemaking in California, crafting accessible wines priced to party.
Welcome Stranger
A California natural wine project sourcing organic fruit from Mendocino's Open Hand Ranch, making zero-sulfur co-fermented wines of striking originality.
Field Recordings
A vine nursery fieldman turned vintner, Andrew Jones bottles California's overlooked corners as a personal catalog of the people and places he loves.
Tony Coturri
Third-generation Sonoma Mountain winemaker and godfather of California natural wine, making sulfite-free, dry-farmed Zinfandel since 1979.
Florez Wines
James Jelks makes dry-farmed, sulfur-light California wines from old mixed-variety vineyards around Santa Cruz, dressed in Japanese-style woodcut labels.
Wonderwerk
A Gilroy-based natural wine label from two Virginia friends, sourcing eclectic grapes across California for playful co-ferments, pet-nats, and orange wines made to be shared.
Le Machin
Mike Roth and Craig Winchester launched Le Machin as a focused, low-intervention project sourcing CCOF-certified organic Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah from the fog-cooled hills of Santa Barbara County.
Lo-Fi Wines
Mike Roth and Craig Winchester built Lo-Fi Wines in Santa Barbara County on a nothing-added, nothing-taken-away philosophy, making low-alcohol, Beaujolais- and Loire-inspired naturals from certified organic and biodynamic vineyards since 2012.
Hollow Wines
Dr. Quinn Hobbs left academia and marketing to make low-intervention, lighter-footprint California wines under his Hollow Wines label, leaning into expressive skin-contact whites.
Llewelyn
Pete Bloomberg's Llewelyn project, launched in 2021 out of Cloverdale, California, coaxes Mendocino old-vine Carignan, Syrah, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay into lean, expressive natural wines with minimal addition and zero irrigation.
Oest
Tahnee Shields makes alive, terroir-driven natural wines in Richmond, California, sourcing Gamay, Cabernet Franc, Syrah, and other varieties from Sierra Foothills growers she trusts to farm with integrity.
Discovino
Discovino is the disco-born rose label of Wonderwerk, the low-intervention California project of childhood friends Issamu Kamide and Andrew Lardy.