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.
Controvento
On a butterfly reserve near the Adriatic in Abruzzo, Vincenzo Di Meo makes certified-organic wines with native yeast, no SO2, and no fining or filtering.
Podere Magia – Lambrusco at its Best
Podere Magia, the 'Estate of Magic,' is vigneron Stefano Pescarmona's small farm in Emilia, in the Lambrusco heartland of Emilia-Romagna. He makes natural, ancestral-method Lambrusco on a homestead of vines, spring water, and wild countryside.
Angol d'Amig
A one-man Lambrusco project near Modena that ferments in the bottle with frozen must instead of autoclaves, turning a mass-produced wine back into something hand-built.
Castello di Verduno
A historic Verduno estate run by Franco Bianco and Gabriella Burlotto, championing the rare Pelaverga grape alongside traditional Barolo and Barbaresco.
Il Censo
A 200-year-old Sicilian family estate near Palazzo Adriano, revived for wine by Gaetano and Nicoletta Gargano under the guidance of Umbria's Giampiero Bea.
Canlibero
Ennio Romano and Mena Iannella farm barely two hectares of Aglianico, Fiano and Falanghina in Torrecuso, making zero-zero Campanian wines that are wild, vivid and uncompromising.
Abbia Nova
Two cousins from farming families are reviving Cesanese and forgotten native grapes on Lazio hills that once hosted Roman emperors and a wandering medieval saint.
Col Tamarie
On the highest hill of Prosecco DOC, Alberto and Marta make a single biodynamic col fondo from a six-grape field blend, refermented in bottle with nothing added.
Caparra & Siciliani
A historic Calabrian estate born in 1963 from two farming families, devoted almost entirely to native Gaglioppo in the Cirò appellation along the Ionian coast.
Natalino del Prete
Certified organic since 1994, Natalino del Prete farms 10 hectares of Primitivo, Negroamaro, and Malvasia Nera in San Donaci without irrigation, without chemicals, and without sulfur — making honest, rustic Salento wines built for the table.
Fattoria Calcabrina
A father-and-son goat farm turned biodynamic estate in the hills of Montefalco, where Diego and Angelo Calcabrina make tiny lots of zero-added-sulfite wine alongside their cheeses.
De Fermo
Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.