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.
Jean Ginglinger
An eleventh-generation Alsatian vigneron in Pfaffenheim working horse-ploughed grand cru parcels and bottling sulfur-free, fully natural cuvees.
Marcel Lapierre | Natural Wine Pioneer
Marcel Lapierre is widely regarded as one of France's founders of the natural wine movement. Lapierre's approach to winemaking emphasized minimal intervention and natural methods, inspiring…
Clotaire Michal
A former sommelier turned Beaujolais vigneron, Clotaire Michal makes structured, age-worthy Gamay from century-old vines on pink granite, far from the glouglou crowd.
Vignoble Dinocheau
Thirteen-hectare Loire family estate in Monthou-sur-Cher, making Chenin Blanc, Cot, Gamay, and Cabernet Franc on the first hillsides of the Cher in conversion to organic.
Julien Peyras
A Languedoc native making zero-sulfur natural wines from old vines around Paulhan, working entirely without additives under his La Dame Jeanne label.
Agnès et René Mosse
Former Tours wine-bar owners became Anjou's natural-wine standard-bearers, farming schist slopes biodynamically and handing the cellar to their two sons.
Jean-Yves Péron
A biochemist turned vigneron who trained with Thierry Allemand and Bruno Schueller before reviving old Mondeuse vines above Lake Annecy with zero-sulfur, skin-contact winemaking.
Jean-François Ganevat
A Burgundy-trained vigneron returned to a family plot worked since 1650 and turned it into the Jura's most coveted source, with more than fifty cuvées and dozens of forgotten grapes.
Domaine Tempier
The Bandol estate that made Mourvedre famous, where the Peyraud family and director Daniel Ravier craft single-parcel reds and the celebrated rose.
Ça Boit Libre
Damien Bastian Goddard launched his Savoie domaine in 2017 after years farming vegetables in Chad and apprenticing under Jean-François Ganevat, producing zero-sulfur Chasselas from glacial moraine vineyards beside Lake Geneva.
Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière
Named after a folk-rock lyric about cicadas bringing the party to the anthill, Julie and Ivo's Montpeyroux domaine makes fresh, lifted Languedoc wine from stony Larzac foothills.
Le Temps d'Aimer
François Maudet and Romain Jos craft transparent, mineral-driven natural wines from 2.7 hectares of slate-rich Anjou vineyards, guided by friendship and a shared belief that the best wine requires as little interference as possible.