Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Former footballer and Rome barman turned biodynamic farmer, Mario Macciocca grows Cesanese, Passerina, and Malvasia Puntinata on four hectares of volcanic limestone in the Scalambra hills of Lazio, making some of Italy's most compelling natural wines from a criminally underrated grape.

The wine business – like many other fields – is one in which women have been underrepresented for too long. In recent years, however, women have…

Marco de Bartoli abandoned a career as a professional racing driver to rescue Marsala from industrial decline, creating the unfortified Vecchio Samperi and restoring the ancient in perpetuum method to western Sicily.

Established in La Morra since the eighteenth century, Poderi e Cantine Oddero farms 35 hectares of Langhe organically, making structured Barolo and Barbaresco aged in large Slavonian oak botti under the sixth and seventh generation of the Oddero family.

Founded in 1989 in Sardinia's Gallura zone, Piero Mancini has become a benchmark producer of Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, farming 120 hectares of organic vineyards across four distinct parcels.

Roberto Maestri founded Quarticello in 2001 in Montecchio Emilia to revive traditional Emilian pétillant naturel, growing only native varieties on the foothills of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines with biodynamic care.

Two former television workers, Piero Riccardi and Lorella Reale, left the screen to save Lazio's indigenous Cesanese, farming biodynamically on volcanic and sandstone soils near Rome.

Founded by Marco Sferlazzo in 2005, this high-altitude Camporeale estate champions old-vine alberello Catarratto and rare Perricone, farmed biodynamically.

Alessandro Viola is a prominent natural wine producer based in Alcamo, a picturesque area in northwestern Sicily. He has gained significant recognition for his commitment to…

Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.

Folicello holds a special place at Primal Wine. Folicello wines were amongst the first natural wines we bought for this project. Everybody loves Folicello wines and…

Twelve kilometers from Slovenia, the Bastiani family farms 18 organic hectares in Collio, where the Aransat orange wine bridges tradition and modernity.