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.
Amarone della Valpolicella DOCG
Amarone della Valpolicella is one of the big Italian red wines. Amarone was born as a blend of three grape varietals indigenous to the Valpolicella area, Corvina, Rondinella, and...
Tenuta la Pergola
A four-generation family estate in Cisterna d'Asti since 1903, Tenuta la Pergola farms 40 organically tended hectares across Roero, Monferrato, and Langhe with indigenous Piedmontese varieties.
Nous
Nous is an Italian farming collective founded in 2015 by Sara and Alessandro Filippi on volcanic Soave soils, uniting small growers across Veneto and Sicily under a regenerative Vini di Luce philosophy that goes beyond organic to revitalize soil life and biodiversity.
Pojer e Sandri
Founded in 1975 in the alpine village of Faedo, Trentino, Pojer e Sandri pioneered sulfur-free winemaking and the revival of rare mountain varieties, building 35 hectares and one of Italy's most celebrated estates.
Viteadovest
Three-generation Marsala family farming century-old alberello vines with zero inputs, producing powerful orange wines and layered reds from Sicily's far west.
Fangareggi
A family farm near Reggio Emilia where Matteo Fangareggi makes hand-harvested, native-yeast Lambrusco from 24 hectares his family has tended since the 1800s.
Rocco di Carpeneto
Former Milanese finance professionals Lidia Carbonetti and Paolo Baretta left the city in 2008 to farm ancient Piedmont vineyards in the Alto Monferrato hills, making zero-zero wines from native grapes.
Vigneti Vallorani
Fifth-generation family estate in southern Le Marche farming 8 certified-organic hectares of Sangiovese, Montepulciano, and Pecorino near the Adriatic coast since 1905.
Cascina degli Ulivi
The Piedmont farm where the late Stefano Bellotti turned a single hectare into one of Italy's defining biodynamic estates, now carried on by his daughter Ilaria.
Radikon – Stanko's Legacy
The late Stanko Radikon, a true icon of the renaissance of natural wines and orange wines, once said: “I sent my son Sasa to get a…
Tenuta il Nespolo
Luca Amerio farms old-vine Barbera and Moscato in Moasca, southern Asti, applying organic principles and a light touch in the cellar to produce vibrant, appellation-defying blends.
Sequerciani
Swiss filmmaker Ruedi Gerber rescued eight neglected hectares in Maremma in 1992, growing them into a Demeter-certified estate devoted to near-extinct Tuscan varieties and zero-sulfur winemaking.