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.
Ocho
Founded in 2012 by Giorgi Tsirghvava and Mamuka Tsiklauri in Georgia, Ocho makes organic kvevri wines from indigenous varieties across Kakheti and Kartli, celebrating Georgian fauna and ancient winemaking tradition.
Kortavebis Marani
A Kakheti winemaker building a living library of thirty-plus indigenous Georgian grapes, fermenting spontaneously in qvevri with zero added sulfur.
Lekso's Marani
Lekso Pitskhelauri makes qvevri wines in his grandfather's century-old cellar in the Kakheti village of Akhshani, coaxing rare indigenous varieties into some of Georgia's most honest and tradition-rooted natural wines.
Artana
Two sisters carry on their great-grandfather's Kakhetian cellar, fermenting indigenous grapes in buried qvevri with nothing added and nothing taken away.
Pheasant's Tears
Founded in 2007 by painter John Wurdeman and eighth-generation grower Gela Patalishvili, this Kakheti estate revives near-extinct Georgian varieties in buried qvevri.