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.
Mas Champart
Founded by Isabelle and Matthieu Champart in Saint-Chinian in 1976 and now guided by winemaker Noémie Vidil since 2023, Mas Champart farms 16 certified-organic hectares on steep limestone terraces at 210-300 metres elevation, making age-worthy, terroir-driven Saint-Chinian reds, whites, and rosé.
Domaine Léonine
A former photographer turned vigneron, Stéphane Morin coaxes lacy, infusion-like reds from the schist foothills of the Albères in Roussillon.
Marie Thibault
From a biology background to Touraine's hillside slopes, Marie Thibault cultivates just four hectares of 50-year-old Chenin, Gamay, Grolleau, and Côt with Ecocert organic certification, crafting vivid, low-intervention wines in the quiet Azay-le-Rideau appellation.
John Almansa
A Languedoc farmer who tends sheep, bees and olives alongside two hectares of old Cinsault, making zero-sulfur whole-cluster wines under his Domaine Zou Mai label.
Bauregard Mirouze
A husband-and-wife team spent a decade bringing tired Corbières soils back to life, then went biodynamic and additive-free in the wild garrigue near Narbonne.
La Sorga
Antony Tortul launched La Sorga in 2008 as an itinerant natural negociant in Languedoc, sourcing from 25 hectares of old vines across calcareous, schist, basalt and granite terroirs to produce zero-sulfite, whole-bunch wines of arresting purity.
Château de Roquefort
A north-facing Provençal amphitheatre near Cassis where biodynamic farming and a long de Villeneuve legacy yield rosés and reds that defy the region's commercial cliches.
Bruno Schueller
From the hamlet of Husseren-les-Châteaux, Bruno Schueller farms biodynamically and ferments dry, low-sulfur Alsace wines that often defy the appellation's tasting panels.
Christian Binner
The Binner family has grown grapes in Ammerschwihr since 1770; Christian farms 11 Demeter-certified hectares and ferments spontaneously in old foudres with no added sulfur.
Anne Arbeau
A fourth-generation Frontonnais house run by a fluid-mechanics PhD who swapped a planned career at Renault for Negrette and organic conversion.
Les Frères Soulier
Brothers Charles and Guillaume Soulier reclaimed four hectares of their father's vines in 2015 in the Gard, southern Rhone, farming by permaculture principles with horses and animals and making sulfur-free, unfiltered wines from Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault.
Laherte Freres
Seventh-generation Aurélien Laherte farms 10.5 biodynamic hectares across 75 parcels in Chavot, Champagne, vinifying plot by plot in old Burgundy barrels without malolactic fermentation to produce grower Champagnes of startling terroir precision.