Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Raised by natural-Beaujolais pioneer Georges Descombes, Coquelet launched his own organic domaine at twenty and now bottles crunchy, low-sulfur Morgon and Chiroubles.

Les Equilibristes is a French collective founded in 2015 by wine merchant Francois de Monval and winemaker Florent Girou, uniting eight vignerons across regions from the Loire to Languedoc under a shared commitment to organic farming and minimal intervention.

Guillaume Reynouard's biodynamic estate in Le Puy-Notre-Dame brings 17th-century Saumur terroir to life through Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, and rare Pineau d'Aunis with zero added sulfur.

At the end of a cypress-lined road in the Corbieres, Laetitia Ourliac and Rodolphe Gianesini farm a 15-hectare garden of Mediterranean vines for soulful natural wines.

A 7.5-hectare Meursault domaine Arnaud Tessier took over at 22, devoted to white Burgundy from some of the village's finest climats.

An alpine sparkling-wine revival in Savoie, where two families bought back the historic Royal Seyssel label in 2007 to remake a wine once famous across Europe.

A former finance professional turned vigneron, Henri Chauvet farms 10.5 hectares of Gamay, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay on the volcanic slopes of Boudes in the Côtes d'Auvergne.

In the medieval village of Gueberschwihr, four generations of the Gross family have moved from conventional Alsace farming to biodynamics and bold, unsulfured orange wines.

After training with Cornas legend Thierry Allemand, Loic Roure rebuilt an old cooperative cellar in Lansac into one of the Roussillon's purest natural-wine voices.

Martin Texier, son of northern Rhône legend Eric Texier, launched his own domaine in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban in 2014 and makes native-yeast, zero-sulfur wines from 5 hectares planted in clay, schist, gneiss, and granite.

Former Australian ballet dancer Paul Old has spent two decades tracking down lost Languedoc parcels, building a 20-hectare biodynamic estate that produces some of the Corbières and Roussillon's most compelling natural wines.

Christophe Aguilar farms 100 organic hectares near Bezouce in the southern Rhône, producing honest wines from Grenache, Syrah, and Carignan named for the wild Mediterranean herb growing throughout his vines.