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.

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Winemaker Holger Koch tasting wine at his estate in Bickensohl, Kaiserstuhl
Baden 2 min read
Holger Koch
On the volcanic Kaiserstuhl, Holger and Gabriele Koch craft some of Germany's most delicate Pinots from Burgundian and Alsatian mass selections, fermented wild and aged on the lees.
Andi Knauss — natural wine producer
Germany 2 min read
Andi Knauss
Fourth-generation Remstal vigneron Andi Knauss farms over a hundred tiny plots organically, bottling Trollinger, Lemberger and Riesling with native ferments and little to no sulfur.
Cuve Kollektiv - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Germany 2 min read
Cuve Kollektiv
A Germany-based project that scouts family-run organic growers without distribution and bottles their spontaneously fermented, low-sulfite wines under tank-numbered labels.
Helmut Dolde holding a bottle of his sparkling wine at his home in Linsenhofen, Swabia
Germany 2 min read
Helmut Dolde
A self-taught teacher-turned-vigneron, Helmut Dolde farms some of Germany's highest vineyards in Swabia and calls his crystalline whites "mountain wines."
Daniel Kurrle and Frederike Schmidt of Kleines Gut
Germany 2 min read
Kleines Gut
A young couple coaxing expressive, hands-off natural wines from three hectares in a steep Stuttgart side valley, working out of a cellar that dates to 1546.
Bianka and Daniel Schmitt, winemakers at Weingut Schmitt, in a close-up portrait outdoors among the vines
Germany 3 min read
Weingut Schmitt
Bianka and Daniel Schmitt bring Hungarian spirit and Rheinhessen heritage together in Demeter-certified natural wines from one of Germany's oldest family estates.
Scheuermann - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Germany 3 min read
Scheuermann
Brothers Gabriel and Simon Scheuermann took over their family's Pfalz estate as teenagers and turned it into one of Germany's most exciting biodynamic addresses, making Pfalz wine in a Loire state of mind.
Weingut Benzinger — natural wine producer
Germany 2 min read
Weingut Benzinger
A Kirchheim family that pioneered organic farming in the northern Pfalz in 1985, fermenting spontaneously and bottling unfined, unfiltered Riesling and Pinot.
Martin Wörner, natural wine producer of Marto, in his barrel cellar in Flonheim, Rheinhessen, Germany
Germany 2 min read
Marto
Trained at Gut Oggau and Matassa, Martin Worner came home to Flonheim and turned his family's old sandstone vines into one of Germany's most copied natural wine projects.
Michael Völker and Melanie Drese of 2Naturkinder, natural wine producers in Franken
Franken 2 min read
2Naturkinder
A couple left science publishing after one accidental glass of natural wine, then came home to Franconia to make additive-free wines and host bat colonies in the vineyard.