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.
Alex Hudon
A former Quebec City sommelier who crossed the Atlantic and now bottles tiny cuvees from his own Cotes de la Charite vines and organic Touraine fruit alike.
Dagueneau
The Loire estate, founded by ex-racer Didier Dagueneau in 1982 and now run by his children, set the global benchmark for serious, ageworthy, single-parcel Sauvignon Blanc.
Jacques Fèvrier
A former sommelier who, inspired by time spent with Australia's natural winemakers, returned to the western Loire to farm six organic hectares around Oudon.
Le Batossay
Baptiste Cousin farms 4.5 hectares in Anjou with horses and old-vine intuition, making zero-sulfur natural wines that carry the spirit of his father Olivier Cousin's legendary natural-wine legacy into a new generation.
Domaine du Mortier
Self-taught brothers Cyril and Fabien Boisard turned a teenage fascination into one of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil's pioneering natural-wine estates.
Domaine Les Hautes Noelles
A Côtes de Grandlieu estate, the first organic domaine in the Pays de Retz, where Juliane and Jean-Gabriel Tridon now craft mineral Muscadet and Gros Plant near Nantes.
Thierry Chardon
Thierry and Sophie Chardon run Domaine de l'Aumonier in Couffy on the Cher, farming 86 acres organically and biodynamically since 2006 for expressive Touraine Sauvignon, Gamay, and Pineau d'Aunis.
Les Tetes
Four Loire Valley friends launched Les Tètes in 2011 to make organic, low-intervention wines in Touraine that are as fun to share as they are easy to drink.
Les Athlètes du Vin
Les Athlètes du Vin is a Loire Valley négociant project born from the Vini Be Good collective, bringing together some of the region's finest natural producers to make honest, value-driven wines under labels designed by Michel Tolmer.
Domaine du Haut Bourg
Fourth-generation brothers Herve and Nicolas Choblet age Melon de Bourgogne on its lees for years beside Lake Grand-Lieu, redrawing the map of serious Muscadet.
Barbara Lebled
Trained alongside her father Laurent, Barbara Lebled launched her own Touraine project in 2019, working organically across the central Loire's full grape palette.
Domaine du Bel Air
Five generations on, Pierre Gauthier and his son Rodolphe plow Benais by draft horse to coax deep, ageworthy Cabernet Franc from Bourgueil's clay-limestone tuffeau.