Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

An Alsace vigneron devoted to skin-macerated orange wines, fermenting native-yeast cuvees with no added sulfur in his cellar near Rosheim.

In the limestone hills of the Ardèche, Grégory Guillaume makes idealistic natural wines that work with the elements rather than against them.

Often called the unofficial fifth member of Beaujolais' Gang of Four, Georges Descombes makes pure, additive-free Gamay across five crus from old vines in Morgon.

Sylvain Bock settled in the volcanic hills of the Ardèche in 2010 and has since built a reputation for zero-zero Syrah, Grenache, and Gamay made with deep respect for the land and none of the shortcuts. One of natural wine's quiet greats.

One of France's youngest natural vignerons, Edouard Adam farms a gifted Languedoc plot at Mas Cambounet with zero chemistry and a palindrome for a name.

A third-generation Alsace estate in Kirchheim where Theo Bechtold farms 12 biodynamic hectares across the Couronne d'Or, including holdings in Grand Cru Engelberg.

Thomas Angles farms 5 organically tended hectares of old Carignan, Aramon, and Grenache near Saint-Chinian in the Languedoc, making minimal-intervention reds full of garrigue character.

Thierry and Sophie Chardon run Domaine de l'Aumonier in Couffy on the Cher, farming 86 acres organically and biodynamically since 2006 for expressive Touraine Sauvignon, Gamay, and Pineau d'Aunis.

A South African raised in New Zealand, Tom Lubbe coaxes 10 to 12 percent wines from sun-baked Roussillon, chasing pale, weightless reds and textured, vivid whites.

Philippe and Céline Wies farm 14 biodynamic, Demeter-certified hectares of ancient schist terraces in Maury, Roussillon, coaxing saline, mineral wines from Lledoner Pelut, Grenache, and Carignan with no sulfur additions.

Four Loire Valley friends launched Les Tètes in 2011 to make organic, low-intervention wines in Touraine that are as fun to share as they are easy to drink.

Vincent and Aurelie Garreta, a former environmental researcher and postal worker who traded careers for vines, farm 10 hectares of certified-organic old vines near Gordes in the Vaucluse, producing precise and fruit-driven natural wines from over a dozen traditional varieties.