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.
La Dernière Goutte
Cuban-American sommelier Juan Sanchez has run this beloved Saint-Germain-des-Prés wine shop since 1996, championing small-producer, organic, and biodynamic French wines decades before natural wine became fashionable.
Domaine de l'Ecu
A long-certified biodynamic Muscadet estate where Fred Niger Van Herck bottles single-rock cuvees and ferments in a cellar of more than seventy terracotta amphorae.
Du Vin Aux Liens
A Breton-born negociant working between Alsace and Lorraine, Vanessa Letort buys grapes only from organic and biodynamic growers and vinifies them with nothing added.
Domaine Chantal Lescure
A Nuits-Saint-Georges domaine founded in 1975, certified organic since 2006, with 18 hectares of pristine Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune vineyards.
Domaine de Grisy
An 18-generation family estate in Saint-Bris-le-Vineux near Chablis, where Pascal Sorin makes mineral Chardonnay and light Pinot Noir.
Thierry Hesnault
Working from a tuffeau cave without electricity near Chahaignes in the Sarthe, Thierry Hesnault produces tiny-quantity, zero-sulfur wines from old-vine parcels he spent years methodically identifying.
Domaine Saint-Cyr
A fourth-generation Beaujolais estate where Raphael Saint-Cyr converted 23 hectares to organic farming and plows his crus with two draft horses.
Jean-Francois Debourg
A sixth-generation Pierres Dorees grower who turned vigneron in 2016 and now bottles additive-free Beaujolais from Gamay, Viognier, and Chardonnay.
Hervé Souhaut
From granite slopes in the hills above the Rhône, Hervé Souhaut coaxes ethereal, perfumed reds out of century-old Syrah and Gamay at Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet.
Domaine de Montille
A storied Volnay estate where Etienne de Montille turned a famously austere, terroir-driven house fully biodynamic across roughly twenty Cote d'Or appellations.
Les Vins Pirouettes
Christian Binner's collaborative collective in Alsace unites over twenty organic and biodynamic growers who might otherwise sell grapes to cooperatives, bottling each wine under the grower's first name.
Le Sot de l'Ange
Quentin Bourse farms 12 biodynamic hectares in Azay-le-Rideau with an intensity that belies his modest output, coaxing Chenin Blanc, Grolleau, and Gamay from clay-silica soils into some of the Loire's most honest and compelling natural wines.