Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

The first woman to lead a Franciacorta estate, Alessandra Divella farms two organic hectares and bottles zero-dosage sparklers that look more to grower Champagne than to the DOCG.

Perched above Todi in Umbria, Roccafiore has farmed organically since 1999, crafting precise, sun-drenched whites from Grechetto di Todi and reds from Sangiovese and Sagrantino.

On a 17th-century estate in Predappio, Marco Cirese farms 30 certified-organic hectares and makes mineral Romagna Sangiovese that honours the subzone's distinct clay and limestone soils.

Luigi Stalteri and Alessandro Viola launched Longarico in 2015 on the slopes of Mount Bonifato above Alcamo, bringing organic Catarratto and red grapes from 350-meter clay-calcareous soils back to life as pure, unfiltered Sicilian naturals.

Elisabetta Foradori, known as the 'Lady of Teroldego,' runs one of Italy's most respected natural wineries in mountainous Trentino. She took over the family estate in 1984 and converted its 28 hectares to biodynamics in 2002, long before natural wine became fashionable.

A fourth-generation Barolo estate on the Bricco Boschis hill that has farmed organically since 1976 and bottles single-vineyard Nebbiolo from one unbroken slope.

Brothers Ruggero and Andrea Ruggeri farm 4 hectares of high-altitude Prosecco vineyards in Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene, crafting small-production Prosecco Superiore and Cartizze with deep respect for the land.

Cantina Indigeno is a wild-wine passion project started by four friends in Abruzzo. They ferment with indigenous yeasts, work in amphora and old wooden presses, and add nothing, making raw, characterful natural wines that channel their central-Italian terroir.

On a fossilized seabed in the Colli Piacentini, Massimiliano Croci makes bottle-refermented sparkling wines with a patient low-and-slow ferment that stops in winter and restarts in spring.

Wine has been made at this Monferrato castle since 1491; today the Bonzano family champions native Barbera, Grignolino, and the rare Albarossa.

Edi Kante carved a three-story cellar into the limestone of the Carso above Trieste and helped put the native Vitovska grape on the map.

Heinrich and Gloria Mayr farm 2.4 hectares of organic vines within the city of Bolzano, Alto Adige, cultivating indigenous Lagrein, Blatterle, Schiava, and Teroldego since at least 1788.