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.
Lammidia
Davide Gentile and Marco Giuliani started Lammidia in 2013 on a sun-blasted plateau at 700 metres in the Gran Sasso National Park, Abruzzo, producing up to 30 cuvées annually in steel, concrete and amphora with zero SO2 under the motto 'uva e basta.'
Luca Bevilacqua
Abruzzo sommelier-turned-winemaker Luca Bevilacqua vinifies his father's clay-soiled vines in Atessa to produce pure, high-drinkability Montepulciano and Trebbiano with zero additions.
Emidio Pepe
For sixty years this Torano Nuovo estate has hand-destemmed every grape, aged in glass-lined cement, and recorked decades-old bottles by hand before they leave the cellar.
Piccolo Podere del Ceppaiolo
Danilo Marcucci and Riccardo Pennaforti protect one of Umbria's oldest vineyards near Assisi on just 1.7 hectares, fermenting ancient local varieties spontaneously in cement and resin tanks with zero sulfur additions.
Controvento
On a butterfly reserve near the Adriatic in Abruzzo, Vincenzo Di Meo makes certified-organic wines with native yeast, no SO2, and no fining or filtering.
De Fermo
Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.
Passione Natura
Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.