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.
La Colombera
Elisa Semino, the self-styled Queen of Timorasso, leads her family's three-generation estate in the Colli Tortonesi, where she has championed the near-extinct grape since her 1996 oenology thesis.
I Pentri
Husband-and-wife growers Dionisio Meola and Lia Falato farm ten hillside hectares in the Sannio, championing Falanghina, Piedirosso and Aglianico the old way.
Riserva della Cascina
A family winery rooted in Rome's ancient Appia Antica Park since 1945, Riserva della Cascina bottles certified-organic wines grown on volcanic soils just minutes from the Colosseum.
Davide Vignato
A third-generation Gambellara grower farming 14 volcanic hectares organically and biodynamically since 1997 to draw deep minerality from Garganega and Durella.
Calalta
A young couple at the foot of Monte Grappa grows offbeat grapes like Bronner and Riesling organically, fermenting wild and aging across steel, cement, wood and amphora.
Nasciri
Domenico and Francesca reclaimed a long-abandoned family property outside Gerace in 2010 to grow Calabria's ancient native grapes — Greco Bianco, Greco Nero, Calabrese Nero, Aglianico — with biodynamic principles and a name meaning 'to be born again' in the local dialect.
Azienda Agricola Denavolo
Giulio Armani's solo project on Monte Denavolo, where white grapes macerate for months on their skins and are treated exactly as if they were red.
Monastero Suore Cistercensi
The Cistercian nuns of Vitorchiano, Lazio, have farmed their five volcanic hectares organically since the early 1990s, hand-harvesting and spontaneously fermenting whites of rare meditative depth under the guidance of Giampiero Bea.
Caneva da Nani
On the steep Glera slopes of Guia, the Canello family makes cloudy, crown-capped col fondo Prosecco that refements in bottle and proudly sits outside the official DOC rules.
Vodopivec
Paolo Vodopivec dedicates his Carso estate exclusively to Vitovska, fermenting in Georgian amphora to produce some of Italy's most profound orange wines.
L'Acino
A Calabrian estate born from three friends with no wine background, now led by Dino Briglio, reviving forgotten indigenous grapes on the edge of the Pollino park.
Il Vinco
Three friends, two oil makers and a cattle breeder, set out in 2014 to make Montefiascone's overlooked native Canaiolo Nero into a wine of its own.