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.
Poggio delle Baccanti
A three-generation La Mura family winery on the Sorrento Peninsula crafts organic, low-sulfur wines from volcanic Vesuvian soils, led by Lacryma Christi del Vesuvio.
Adelina Molettieri
Aglianico vines that survived phylloxera on their own roots anchor a tiny organic estate above Montemarano, now made by young hands trained at a pioneering natural cellar.
Bajola di Alice
On the volcanic island of Ischia, a former actress vinifies under one hectare of terraced vines in ancient rainwater cisterns, with no added sulfites and barely three thousand bottles a year.
Villa Dora
Organic Vesuvius winery farming ungrafted indigenous vines on volcanic pumice inside the national park, making Piedirosso, Falanghina, and Lacryma Christi with minimal intervention.
La Sibilla
The Di Meo family has farmed ungrafted Falanghina and Piedirosso on volcanic Campi Flegrei soils north of Naples for five generations, crafting mineral wines from one of Italy's most singular wine zones.
I Pentri
Husband-and-wife growers Dionisio Meola and Lia Falato farm ten hillside hectares in the Sannio, championing Falanghina, Piedirosso and Aglianico the old way.
Il Cancelliere
In the high Taurasi village of Montemarano, the Romano family makes uncompromising, long-aged Aglianico from old peasant traditions and nothing but old wood.
Il Tufiello
On a historic organic cereal farm at almost 800 meters in Alta Irpinia, Guido and Igiea Zampaglione make long-macerated, single-variety Fiano named for Don Quixote.
Agnanum – Southern Italy Best Kept Natural Wine Secret
Agnanum, located on the volcanic hills of the Campi Flegrei area of the Mediterranean paradise of the Campania region, is one of the symbols and pioneers…
Gaia Felix
Gaia Felix revives the ancient alberata tradition of vines climbing trees, farming Asprinio biodynamically on volcanic soils north of Caserta in Campania.
Capolino Perlingieri
A former Milan investment banker who returned home to Campania in 2003 to revive her family's Sannio estate, farming organically and bottling indigenous Falanghina, Greco, Fiano and Aglianico.
Canlibero
Ennio Romano and Mena Iannella farm barely two hectares of Aglianico, Fiano and Falanghina in Torrecuso, making zero-zero Campanian wines that are wild, vivid and uncompromising.