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.
Jo Landron
A fourth-generation Nantais vigneron who converted his family estate to certified biodynamics, championing Muscadet as a serious, mineral, terroir-driven wine.
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.
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.
Domaine de l'Ecu
A long-certified biodynamic Muscadet estate where Fred Niger Van Herck bottles single-rock cuvees and ferments in a cellar of more than seventy terracotta amphorae.
Domaine de la Pépière
A benchmark Muscadet estate built parcel by parcel by Marc Ollivier and now led by Remi Branger and Gwenaelle Croix, with an unusually high share of cru vineyards.