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.
Pormenor
Pedro Coelho founded Pormenor in 2013 to make fresh, elegant Douro wines from 50-to-100-year-old vines at high altitude, using organic farming and native yeasts to chase freshness where the valley once only sought power.
Márcio Lopes
Born in Porto in 1983, Márcio Lopes scours the Vinho Verde and Douro for old abandoned vineyards, then makes wines of fierce purity from them — native yeasts, minimal sulfur, and an impatience with the ordinary.
Folias de Baco
From a high plateau above the Douro, Tiago Sampaio coaxes vivid, low-sulfur natural wines and pet-nats out of century-old field blends under the Uivo label.