Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

A Karst estate above Sagrado with vines documented since 1750, where the Terraneo family farms organically and champions the indigenous Vitovska and Terrano.

Paolo Vodopivec dedicates his Carso estate exclusively to Vitovska, fermenting in Georgian amphora to produce some of Italy's most profound orange wines.

From Oslavia in Friuli's Collio, Josko Gravner pioneered the modern amber wine movement, fermenting Ribolla Gialla in buried Georgian qvevri.

Sandi Skerk farms 7 hectares of Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana, and Terrano on the windswept limestone plateau of Carso, just meters from Slovenia, making age-worthy skin-contact whites and refined reds from a cellar carved into bedrock.

Dario Princic has now for many years been a paradigmatic example and guiding light when it comes to masterful orange wines from Friuli-Venezia Giulia's Collio subregion,…

Marco Pecorari revived his family's 1874 estate in San Lorenzo Isontino, Friuli, producing only ancestral-method sparkling wines from 50-year-old Malvasia Istriana vines on the alluvial plains between Collio and the Isonzo river.

Four friends founded Sassocorno in 2017 in Corno di Rosazzo, Friuli, choosing the land out of love rather than inheritance to grow native varieties organically and make spontaneously fermented wines that taste of eastern Friuli's mineral seabed soils.

A pioneer of skin-contact wine in Friuli's Collio, Franco Terpin farms marl-and-sandstone hills straddling the Italian-Slovenian border and macerates his whites for weeks to make textured, age-worthy orange wines.

Ferdinando Zanusso and son Mario coax transparent, age-worthy Friulano from old vines in Collio and Colli Orientali, aiming to alter nothing in the cellar.