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.
J. Brix Wines
A San Diego County couple making tiny lots of native-yeast natural wine from grapes sourced all over California, guided by the motto 'only love.'
De la Soif
A thirst-quenching California natural wine line from the Deux Punx duo, made for importer Merchants of Thirst.
Frenchtown Farms
Aaron and Cara Mockrish farm and make wine in California's North Yuba foothills, mentored by Clos Saron's Gideon Beinstock, crafting foot-trodden, native-ferment wines from organic mountain vineyards.
Poco a Poco
Luke Bass of Porter-Bass Winery in Sonoma County makes Poco a Poco wines from certified organic and biodynamic Mendocino grapes -- slow, careful, minimal-intervention winemaking that lives up to the label's "little by little" philosophy.
Where's Linus?
Chris Christensen, Bodkin Wines founder and Wine Enthusiast 40 Under 40 honoree, makes playful skin-contact California wines that champion diversity in the wine industry.
Beaver Creek Vineyards
Czech-born Martin Pohl makes CCOF-organic and Demeter-certified wines below Mount Saint Helena, native-fermented with zero added sulfites and no filtration.
Gearhead Wines
Former fisherman and Acme baker Craig West makes tiny, foot-tread, zero-sulfur California lots after one evening stomping grapes changed his life.
Las Jaras
Winemaker Joel Burt and actor-director Eric Wareheim founded Las Jaras in 2017, sourcing from organic and sustainably farmed old-vine sites across Mendocino, Sonoma and Oregon to produce low-intervention California wines that are food-friendly, lower-alcohol and genuinely fun.
Margins
Megan Bell founded Margins in 2016 to spotlight California's overlooked grape varieties and marginal wine regions, building one of the state's most distinctive low-intervention portfolios before closing in 2026.
Martin Pohl Wines
Czech-born winemaker Martin Pohl has farmed a remote 185-acre Lake County mountain property biodynamically since 2007, making Demeter-certified, sulfite-free natural wines at elevation from volcanic soils with a philosophy rooted in healing agriculture.
Fiky Fiky
A playful Los Angeles natural wine project from friends Ty Steidle and Brock Larson, making wild-fermented California wines from organic and regenerative vineyards.
En Cavale
Wolfgang Weber and Chad Westbrook Hinds founded En Cavale in 2017 to re-examine classic West Coast grapes like Sauvignon Blanc and Zinfandel through a natural, affordable lens.