Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

A former Radiohead roadie quit corporate life after a car crash and now makes what she calls Loiredoc wines: Languedoc fruit raised in the Loire.

A self-taught Anjou paysan working a handful of hectares of Chenin and animals in Rablay-sur-Layon, bottling sulfur-free Loire wines of striking purity.

A hilltop Beaumes-de-Venise estate run by brothers Henri and Philippe Leydier, makers of the appellation's most celebrated Muscat.

After apprenticing with Jean-Baptiste Senat, Benjamin Taillandier farms Caunes-Minervois biodynamically to make lighter, fresher Minervois built for thirst.

British-born Jo Jefferies farms just 4 hectares of volcanic basalt soil around the village of Caux in the Hérault, making intensely mineral natural wines that have earned him a reputation as one of Languedoc's most compelling producers.

Laurent Cazottes transforms rare heirloom grapes and orchard fruits from his biodynamic farm in the Tarn into vivid natural wines, eaux-de-vie, and liqueurs rooted in 12 generations of family history.

Six generations of Bruniers have farmed the windswept La Crau plateau, where a deep mantle of rounded galets stones gives Vieux Télégraphe its benchmark Châteauneuf-du-Pape.

A pioneering Coteaux-du-Loir estate founded in 2002 by Christian Chaussard and Nathalie Gaubicher, whose zero-added-anything Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis helped shape Loire natural wine.

A perfectionist Barsac grower coaxes weighty, age-worthy dry white Bordeaux from old Semillon on clay and limestone over fissured rock.

Son of Morgon icon Georges Descombes, Kewin Descombes farms granite parcels of old-vine Gamay organically and carries the family's natural tradition forward.

A Noma-trained Dane turned Ardèche vigneron names each one-time-only cuvee after poetry and song, adding nothing and taking nothing away from the grapes.

Farming organic since 2013 across 50 old-vine parcels in the Petite Montagne, this multigenerational house is a rare certified grower in Champagne.