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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Charles Soulier of Les Freres Soulier holding freshly harvested grapes at harvest time in Saint-Hilaire-d'Ozilhan, Gard
Cinsault 2 min read
Les Frères Soulier
Brothers Charles and Guillaume Soulier reclaimed four hectares of their father's vines in 2015 in the Gard, southern Rhone, farming by permaculture principles with horses and animals and making sulfur-free, unfiltered wines from Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault.
Axel Prufer of Le Temps des Cerises peering over a fermentation vessel in his Languedoc cellar
Carignan 2 min read
Les Temps des Cerises
German-born Axel Prufer left East Germany for the Languedoc in 2003 and built a domaine of roughly 15 hectares above Beziers, farming granitic soils without systemic sprays and making zero-sulfur wines from Cinsault, Carignan, and Grenache with an easy, glouglou character all his own.
Jeff Coutelou, winemaker at Mas Coutelou, Puimisson
Carignan 3 min read
Mas Coutelou
Jean-François 'Jeff' Coutelou farms 14 hectares of ancient vines in Puimisson with certified-organic credentials stretching back to 1987, producing singular Languedoc wines from rare Mediterranean varieties with total commitment to non-intervention.