Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Alfredo Mastropietro revives the ancient wine culture of San Vito Romano in Lazio, farming 9 organic hectares on the edge of the Apennines to produce skin-contact Bellone and traditional Cesanese that honour four generations of family viticulture.

Silvia Tezza, who came to wine without a winemaking family, rescued a walled clos of old Garganega vines near Verona to make sulfite-free, hands-off bottlings.

Self-taught winemaker Andrea Pendin founded Tenuta l'Armonia in 2010 in Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, crafting biodynamic blends from Garganega, Durella, and Tai Rosso on volcanic Veneto soils.

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.

The Nofrini family and Danilo Marcucci produce deeply traditional, completely natural Umbrian wines from hilltop vineyards overlooking Lake Trasimeno at 600 meters elevation.

Marco Cecchini farms eight organic hectares in the eastern hills of Friuli with tireless hand attention, producing indigenous-variety wines of purity and restraint from Faedis in the Colli Orientali.

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,…

Matilde Poggi has spent more than 40 years proving that Bardolino, long overlooked, can produce wines of genuine elegance and depth, farming 28 certified-organic hectares on the eastern shores of Lake Garda with complete independence.

Rossella Mastrotto returned from a global wine journey to revive ancient Garganega vines on Gambellara's volcanic basalt soils, naming her estate after a Roman harvest festival.

Family estate in Romagna's Imola hills making organic, minimal-intervention wines from Sangiovese, Albana, and Trebbiano since the 1960s.

Los Angeles lifestyle duo Bo Yeong and Kevin Carney created Loose Wines with Emilia-Romagna producer Massimo Randi: a trio of organic, ancestral-method pet nat sparkling wines from indigenous Longanesi and Malbo Gentile grapes.

Three generations in Diano d'Alba, Marco Brangero blends inherited tradition with a modern hand, reaching to Verduno and Serralunga for his Barolo.