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.

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Forteto della Luja - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Italy 2 min read
Forteto della Luja
In Italy's smallest DOC, the Scaglione family farm a WWF nature oasis in Loazzolo, reviving raisined Moscato passito alongside biodynamic Piedmontese reds.
Giovanna Tiezzi of Pàcina standing in her vineyards near Castelnuovo Berardenga, Tuscany
Italy 3 min read
Pàcina
Giovanna Tiezzi and her family have stewarded Pàcina, a 10th-century monastery estate near Castelnuovo Berardenga in Tuscany, for nearly a century, producing some of Italy's most quietly radical natural Sangiovese.
Flavio Restani of Koi standing in his vineyard
Emilia-romagna 1 min read
Koi
A former Lambrusco cellar hand turned grower making tiny lots of col fondo sparkling wine from old, hand-trained vines in the hills west of Bologna.
Cascina Pugnane - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Barolo 2 min read
Cascina Pugnane
A Ghisolfi-family Barolo estate on the Pugnane hill at Castiglione Falletto, hand-harvesting Nebbiolo for tiny-production, Slavonian-oak-aged Barolo crus.
MonteStregone - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Barbera 2 min read
MonteStregone
Alessandro Gallo and Roberto Orsi make concentrated Barbera d'Asti and Dolcetto d'Acqui from a three-hectare south-facing hillside vineyard in the thermal spa town of Acqui Terme, on a hill where local legend claims the last Piedmontese witches once gathered.
Oro di Diamanti - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Emilia-romagna 3 min read
Oro di Diamanti
Riccardo and Susanna Diamanti farm 3.5 organic hectares in Zola Predosa, crafting pet-nat and traditional-method sparklers from indigenous Pignoletto that are unfined, unfiltered, and sulfite-free.
The Ruggeri family of Le Colture gathered in their wine cellar surrounded by bottles
Glera 2 min read
Le Colture
The Ruggeri family has cultivated the steep Glera vineyards of Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene for generations, crafting Prosecco Superiore DOCG that expresses the singular terroir of Italy's most celebrated sparkling wine hills.
Winemaker Danilo Marcucci standing among the vines at Ceppaiolo in Umbria
Italy 2 min read
Ceppaiolo
On a tiny Umbrian plot of 70-year-old vines, Danilo Marcucci makes wine with 1950s gear and no recipe, deciding each vintage by tasting the grapes.
Filippo Rizzo of Lamoresca standing in a field in central Sicily
Frappato 2 min read
Lamoresca
Filippo Rizzo returned to his remote patch of central Sicily in the early 2000s after running a natural-wine restaurant in Belgium, and now farms 11 hectares of organic Frappato, Nero d'Avola and Nerello Mascalese at 450 metres between Etna and Vittoria.
Bakari - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Garganega 2 min read
Bakari
A collective of five wine professionals, led by Raffaele Bonivento with winemaker Stefano Menti, making honest, affordable Veneto naturals from biodynamic Gambellara fruit.
Garganuda - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Garganega 2 min read
Garganuda
A play on Garganega and the Italian for naked, Garganuda is Andrea Fiorini Carbognin's biodynamic Gambellara project, born from his bond with Stefano Menti.
Elios founders Nicola and Guido raising glasses of natural wine in Sicily
Italy 2 min read
Elios
Two friends, Nicola and Guido, revived their families' farmland in the Alcamo hills in 2015 to make low-intervention wines from native Sicilian grapes, plus olive oil and honey.