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.
Thierry Hesnault
Working from a tuffeau cave without electricity near Chahaignes in the Sarthe, Thierry Hesnault produces tiny-quantity, zero-sulfur wines from old-vine parcels he spent years methodically identifying.
Le Sot de l'Ange
Quentin Bourse farms 12 biodynamic hectares in Azay-le-Rideau with an intensity that belies his modest output, coaxing Chenin Blanc, Grolleau, and Gamay from clay-silica soils into some of the Loire's most honest and compelling natural wines.
Les Equilibriste
Les Equilibristes is a French collective founded in 2015 by wine merchant Francois de Monval and winemaker Florent Girou, uniting eight vignerons across regions from the Loire to Languedoc under a shared commitment to organic farming and minimal intervention.
Manoir de la Tête Rouge
Guillaume Reynouard's biodynamic estate in Le Puy-Notre-Dame brings 17th-century Saumur terroir to life through Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, and rare Pineau d'Aunis with zero added sulfur.
Pascal Janvier
Pascal Janvier tends nine hectares of Chenin Blanc and Pineau d'Aunis across 66 parcels in Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir, farming sustainably to produce the most mineral, flinty expressions of these little-known Loire appellations.
Jean-Francois Mereau
A fourth-generation Touraine vigneron working the Cher valley in chalk, flint, and clay, ageing organic Loire wines in oak, concrete egg, and amphora.
Vignoble Dinocheau
Thirteen-hectare Loire family estate in Monthou-sur-Cher, making Chenin Blanc, Cot, Gamay, and Cabernet Franc on the first hillsides of the Cher in conversion to organic.
Agnès et René Mosse
Former Tours wine-bar owners became Anjou's natural-wine standard-bearers, farming schist slopes biodynamically and handing the cellar to their two sons.
Le Temps d'Aimer
François Maudet and Romain Jos craft transparent, mineral-driven natural wines from 2.7 hectares of slate-rich Anjou vineyards, guided by friendship and a shared belief that the best wine requires as little interference as possible.
Herve Villemade
A leading natural vigneron of the Loire's Cheverny, Herve Villemade farms organically and ferments with native yeasts across concrete, foudre, barrique and amphora.
Gaspard
Born from importer Jenny Lefcourt's network of Loire growers, Gaspard proves that honest, native-yeast natural wine can sit at an everyday price.
Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme
Loire Valley vigneron Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme trained under Thierry Puzelat before establishing his own 9-hectare domaine in Touraine, making energetic natural wines from indigenous and endangered grape varieties.