Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

A fourth-generation Lantignie vigneron farming biodynamic granite and blue-clay parcels across Beaujolais crus, fermenting with native yeasts and minimal sulfur.

A Czech émigré turned Ardèche natural-wine pioneer, Andrea Calek farms five chemical-free hectares and bottles Syrah, Grenache and Merlot with no added sulfites, fining or filtration.

A certified-organic Touraine estate in Theseco-farmed since 2021 by Simon Tardieux and Jerome Gal under the principles of peasant agriculture.

Four generations of the Duport family have shaped the Bugey appellation; Yves now farms biodynamically and makes wines of alpine freshness.

Yves Amberg has farmed certified organic Alsace vineyards since 2001, producing terroir-driven skin-contact and varietal wines from Epfig.

Wilfried Crochet makes small-production organic still and sparkling wines from 3.5 hectares in the village of Bulligny in Lorraine, a historic French wine region just southwest of Nancy.

A pioneering biodynamic Bordeaux estate near Blaye, in the Hubert family since 1895 and certified biodynamic since 2000.

Nathalie Banes farms roughly 4 hectares of Gamay in the high-altitude village of Oingt, Beaujolais, plowing her clay-limestone slopes with a horse named Hulot and vinifying without sulfur or filtration for wines of quiet intensity.

Pascal Janvier tends nine hectares of Chenin Blanc and Pineau d'Aunis across 66 parcels in Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir, farming sustainably to produce the most mineral, flinty expressions of these little-known Loire appellations.

Valentin Montanet tends 20 organically farmed hectares at Vézelay in Burgundy's Yonne, where he and his parents Jean and Catherine produce Kimmeridgian-limestone Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with spontaneous fermentation and minimal sulfur.

Former government officer turned biodynamic vigneron farming 6 hectares in Poligny, Jura, making natural wines from Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, and Trousseau.

A fourth-generation Touraine vigneron working the Cher valley in chalk, flint, and clay, ageing organic Loire wines in oak, concrete egg, and amphora.