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.
Plantamura
Mariangela Plantamura continues her family's century-long tradition of growing Primitivo in Gioia del Colle, making tiny-production organic wines from 3.5 hectares of old vines behind the family home.
Agnanum – Southern Italy Best Kept Natural Wine Secret
Agnanum, located on the volcanic hills of the Campi Flegrei area of the Mediterranean paradise of the Campania region, is one of the symbols and pioneers…
Girolamo Russo
A former concert pianist returned to his family's old vines on Etna's northern slope, farming volcanic sciare across four contrade between 650 and 780 meters.
Giulia Negri Serradenari
Known as the Barolo Girl, Giulia Negri makes elegant, high-altitude Barolo and Burgundy-inspired Pinot and Chardonnay from La Morra's highest vineyards.
Gabrio Bini
A former Milanese architect who buries terracotta amphorae among ancient bush vines on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, ploughing by horse to make some of natural wine's most singular bottles.
Barbacan Wines – High-altitude Excellence
The Sega brothers, Matteo and Luca, along with their father Angelo, are the heart and soul of Barbacan. They are among the pioneers of natural winemaking…
Domini del Leone
A Fidora family label from one of Italy's oldest organic estates, certified organic on the Venetian mainland since 1974 and biodynamic since 2018.
Giovanni Mesina – The Shepherd Who Makes Wine
Giovanni Mesina likes to call himself “the shepherd who makes wine”. That’s because that’s what he is, aside from being a natural vigneron who is as…
Fornacella
A small organic Montalcino estate, Fornacella farms about 2.5 hectares of Sangiovese at 300 to 400 meters and ages its Brunello for 36 months in Slavonian oak.
Cantina Marilina
Two sisters farm 60 organic hectares on a Pachino hilltop in southeast Sicily, hand-harvesting native grapes and fermenting in concrete with the lightest touch in the cellar.
Cantina Giardino – The Interview
Let’s start a bit philosophically with “what is natural wine for you?” This is going to sound a bit provocative but to me, natural wine doesn’t…
Fattoria Mondo Antico
An organic, biodynamic farm in the Oltrepo Pavese hills where Dario Tiraboschi and his family let cows graze between the vines and ferment local Croatina and Barbera with wild yeast.