Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

An old north-facing Etna vineyard born after the 1981 eruption, brought back to life as a natural wine project with winemaker Alessandro Viola guiding the cellar since 2015.

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.

Self-taught vigneron Michel Vallet recovered abandoned stone terraces across the Aosta Valley to champion rare alpine grapes like Vuillermin, of which he is one of only three growers.

In the hills above Parma, Camillo Donati turns Lambrusco, Malvasia and Barbera into bone-dry, bottle-fermented frizzanti using only wild yeasts and zero filtration.

Former master brewer Dario Sciuto and partners Giovanni Nicita and Leonardo Di Vincenzo recover old ungrafted vines on the south slope of Mount Etna under the Manciaciumi label, making minimal-intervention volcanic wines.

The fourth-generation Tintero family in Mango, Piedmont, has farmed 30 hectares of Moscato country since 1900, producing single-vineyard Moscato d'Asti and simple, honest table wines imported by Kermit Lynch.

Ferdinando Zanusso and son Mario coax transparent, age-worthy Friulano from old vines in Collio and Colli Orientali, aiming to alter nothing in the cellar.

Near the Roman coast, Enrico Rosati and Federica farm a single hectare of Bordeaux varieties biodynamically, fermenting spontaneously with nothing added in the cellar.

Randi for Vinovore is a collaboration between LA natural wine shop Vinovore -- founded by Coly Den Haan -- and Azienda Agricola Randi in Romagna, producing ancestral-method pet-nats from rare indigenous varieties including Famoso, Centesimino, and Longanesi.

Enio Ferretti has farmed Carezzano organically since founding La Morella in 1985, growing indigenous Timorasso, Barbera, and Dolcetto on 10 certified organic hectares in Piedmont's Colli Tortonesi.

Sauro Maule tends his family's converted cattle farm in the Colli Berici, coaxing expressive wines from Garganega, Durella, and Tai Rosso with zero added chemicals and very little sulfur.

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