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.
Good Boy Wine
A French-inspired Los Angeles natural wine project pairing Central Coast organic fruit with low-intervention winemaking and an easygoing, joyful spirit.
Ashanta Wines
A partnership between third-generation winemaker Chenoa Ashton-Lewis and cinematographer Will Basanta, born from a family vineyard scarred by the 2017 Nuns Fire and named partly for the Swahili word for thank you.
General Psychotic Activity
Four creative-arts friends in Los Angeles started General Psychotic Activity during the pandemic, making zero-sulfur wines from organic and biodynamic California fruit.
Stirm Wine Co.
Ryan Stirm farms dry and organic vineyards in California's Pajaro Valley, making white-wine-forward natural wines that champion Riesling, historic Cabernet Pfeffer, and forgotten coastal varieties with a farmer's patience and a surfer's ease.
Martha Stoumen
First-generation California winemaker Martha Stoumen farms organic and dry-farmed sites across Mendocino and Contra Costa, making patient, additive-free wines from Italian varieties and California classics that ask a simple question: what does this state actually taste like?
Herrmann York
Three friends making low-sulfite wines from historic and high-desert vineyards across inland Southern California, out of a Redlands winery and wine bar.
Vin de California
Los Angeles natural wine project from former sommelier Adam Vourvoulis, making spontaneous, zero-sulfur, heritage-variety wines from Santa Barbara with wit and no pretension.
Slow Dance
Graham Shelton launched Slow Dance in 2018 in Northern California, making zero-sulfur, native-ferment wines from organically farmed Mendocino, Sonoma, and Lodi vineyards with a light touch and a deep respect for terroir.
Tendu
Steve and Jill Matthiasson launched Tendu to prove a point: that honest, hand-farmed natural wine from Italian grapes grown in California's Sacramento Valley could be delicious, generous, and cost less than $20 in a one-liter bottle.
Everything is Okay
From a shared warehouse in Richmond, California, Booker Riley turns organically farmed fruit into zero-zero wines built on long-term relationships with the farmers who grow it.
Conduit
A small family winery on a granite ridge in El Dorado County making native-ferment natural wines from a 6-acre estate vineyard at 2,700 feet.
Jumbo Time Wines
A Los Angeles natural wine project from two self-taught friends who turned playful curiosity into orange wines, chilled reds, and serious Pinot Noir.