Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Maurizio Ferraro is the fiercely independent Piedmontese vigneron behind 'vinocinghialo,' or 'wild boar wine.' His bottles are rustic and wild in character yet precise and erudite, dissident wines shaped by his own creativity and a terroir he helped bring to life.

Progetto Sete is two childhood friends, Arcangelo and Emiliano, who came to natural wine through a love of craft beer. After Emiliano worked vintages with Gianmarco Antonuzi of Le Coste, they founded Sete in Priverno, in the Lazio countryside south of Rome.

Monte dall'Ora is Carlo Venturini and Alessandra Zantedeschi, who in 1995 set out to make terroir-driven natural wine in Valpolicella, a region better known for oak-heavy Amarone. Both from local vigneron families, they farm the heart of Valpolicella, interpreting nature without forcing it.

Dario Princic makes some of the world's most revered orange wines from Oslavia, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia's Collio, on the Slovenian border. He has farmed and vinified naturally since 1993, long before “natural wine” had a name, producing complex, skin-contact whites in a strict vinnaturist style.

It is in the ruggedly beautiful hills near Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy about 8km from the crystalline Adriatic sea...

Stefano Legnani came to wine as a passionate drinker, not a farmer, leaving a career as a Bologna insurance broker to work his wife Monica's tiny vineyard near Sarzana, in eastern Liguria. His cult natural wines have made him a genuine star in Japan.

Azienda Agricola Imazio is a family estate in the Colline Novaresi of northern Piedmont, with land records dating to the 1700s. Certified organic by ICEA, they farm sustainably and specialize in Nebbiolo, known locally as Spanna, alongside other natural wines.

Carolina Gatti is one of the pioneering natural vignerons in Veneto's Prosecco country, a land otherwise given over to industrial farming. An oenology graduate devoted to the local Raboso del Piave, she pairs formal technical training with a fiercely natural approach in the cellar.

Nicoletta Bocca left Milan in 1992 for the Piedmontese countryside of Dogliani, in the Langhe, to become a winemaker. She has made organic wines at her San Fereolo estate since 2004, working with minimal intervention in the vineyard and cellar to craft characterful, age-worthy bottles.

Folicello is Marco and Antonella, a husband-and-wife team who have made living, natural wines in the Emilia-Romagna countryside since the early 1980s. Their affordable natural sparklers were among the very first wines Primal Wine ever bought, and they remain house favorites.