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.
Cellier Des Cray
Adrien Berlioz farms seven hectares across 17 steep Savoie micro-parcels by hand, Demeter-certified biodynamic, bottling a cuvee from each named for a family member.
Fabrice Chaillou
A new-wave Anjou vigneron working barely two hectares, Fabrice Chaillou devotes almost everything to Chenin Blanc, farmed and vinified as naturally as possible.
Carmarans
A former Paris natural-wine bar owner who went home to the Aveyron to farm steep schist slopes organically, reviving the local Fer Servadou grape with near-zero sulfur.
Chateau le Bergey
A former pro ice-hockey player turned winemaker, Damien Laurent farms one of Bordeaux's rare biodynamic estates, with Le Bergey as its honest entry red.
Domaine Lampyres
François-Xavier Dauré named his Roussillon estate after the fireflies he resembled while pruning by headlamp before dawn, and now makes additive-free wines from organic and biodynamic vines.
Jacques Fèvrier
A former sommelier who, inspired by time spent with Australia's natural winemakers, returned to the western Loire to farm six organic hectares around Oudon.
Rapahel Beysang
Alsatian-born Raphael Beysang and his Quebec partner Emelie Hurtubise farm 7 hectares biodynamically in southern Beaujolais, making zero-zero Gamay in litre bottles under the GAEC Lapins des Vignes label with whole-bunch fermentation and no additions.
Les Vignes D'Olivier
Olivier Cohen left Nice's natural wine bar scene to take over 7 hectares of old vines in Argelliers, Languedoc, where he makes zero-sulfur wines that draw equally on garrigue, intuition, and mentors like Thierry Allemand.
YoYo
Former Paris fashion director Laurence Manya Krief farms five hectares of cliff-side schist in Banyuls-sur-Mer with a mule and radical precision.
Domaine Kuentz-Bas
A historic Alsace house with roots in 1795, revived under vigneron Jean-Baptiste Adam since 2004 with a shift to organic and biodynamic farming.
Rémi Poujol
Rémi Poujol farms 12 hectares near Pézenas, Languedoc with two horses and no inputs, producing searingly honest natural wines since his first vintage in 1993. His motto: le temps fait tout — time does it all.
Domaine de Dauliac
A ninth-generation Cahors estate in Luzech where young Pierre Baltenweck farms biodynamically and makes supple, juicy Malbec.