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 Grange 476
Dimitri Vetois and Marion Valverde work four hectares of old Jura vines by horse in Menétru-le-Vignoble, making biodynamic wines from Savagnin, Chardonnay, Poulsard, and Pinot Noir that speak clearly of limestone and marl.
Les Valseuses
Antoine Le Court-Chedevergne and Julia Naar make additive-free wines in a 250-year-old Jura cellar, naming each cuvée after music that guided them from Australia to Brazil and back to France.
O2Y
A three-way collaboration between Olivier Guala, Yves Roy, and Yoshinori Kuroda in Poligny, Jura, making zero-sulfur, additive-free natural wines since 2020 from organically farmed plots between Arbois and Poligny.
Domaine Gérard Villet
A tiny zero-zero estate in Arbois where Gérard and Christine Villet have farmed organically since 1988, mentoring a generation of Jura natural winemakers along the way.
Domaine Nøvice
Around Poligny, Yves Roy farms five hectares of ancient Savagnin and Poulsard with humility, bottling zero-intervention Jura wines under a name that means beginner.
Valentin Morel
Former government officer turned biodynamic vigneron farming 6 hectares in Poligny, Jura, making natural wines from Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, and Trousseau.
Jean-François Ganevat
A Burgundy-trained vigneron returned to a family plot worked since 1650 and turned it into the Jura's most coveted source, with more than fifty cuvées and dozens of forgotten grapes.
Domaine Des Coteaux du Val
Jean-Francois Ryon's tiny Jura estate in Vernantois, organic since 2003, working 2.68 hectares of Jurassic blue marl with no additives and little or no sulfur.
Domaine de l'Octavin
A classically trained cellist who detoured through Chile and Napa, Alice Bouvot now makes zero-sulphur living wines on five Demeter-certified hectares outside Arbois.
Baptiste Ramboz
An Arbois native who trained from Bordeaux to Sonoma before returning to the Jura, Ramboz farms a tiny holding of Savagnin, Chardonnay and Trousseau.