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.

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Le Raisin & l'Ange - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Ardeche 3 min read
Le Raisin & l'Ange
Antonin Azzoni continues his father Gilles's pioneering zero-sulfur work in the Ardeche, farming a small family plot and sourcing from neighboring organic growers to make wines that have cheered hearts in these volcanic valleys since 2000.
La Grange de l'Oncle Charles - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Alsace 3 min read
La Grange de l'Oncle Charles
Jérôme François and Morgane Stoquert farm 5 biodynamic hectares across eight Alsace villages with draft horses and sheep, producing field-blend wines of rare complexity in tiny quantities.
Winemaker Cyril Cuche standing among the vines at Château Puech Redon
France 2 min read
Château Puech Redon
On a vast organic estate near Nîmes, Cyril Cuche makes minimal-intervention Languedoc wines, several in collaboration with Eric Texier.
Luc Devot in black and white, looking toward the camera at a table with wine bottles
France 3 min read
Le Debit d'Ivresse
Luc Devot spent years as a cook, fisherman, musician, and educator before finding his calling in a 4.5-hectare plot of schist-rooted vines in Estagel, where he crafts exuberant natural wines that taste unmistakably of the Roussillon.
Aldo Viola — natural wine producer
Italy 2 min read
Aldo Viola
A former footballer turned natural-wine cult figure, Aldo Viola farms scattered Sicilian plots single-handed and macerates Catarratto and Grillo for months on end.
Winemaker Lisa Hinton of Old Westminster Winery seated on barrels
East coast 3 min read
Old Westminister
Winemaker Lisa Hinton and her siblings grow and vinify Maryland fruit with native yeasts and zero filtration at their Westminster farm, producing some of the East Coast's most compelling natural wines.
De Levende - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
California 1 min read
De Levende
A Los Angeles importer's California-grown side project turning North Coast organic fruit into zero-zero, no-sulfur natural wine.
The four founders of Envinate standing on a cliff above the Atlantic coast of Tenerife
Canary islands 2 min read
Envinate
Four oenology-school friends roam Spain's wildest Atlantic terruños, from Tenerife's volcanic slopes to the schist of Ribeira Sacra, making soulful, low-intervention wines.
Everwild co-founder Talia St. Clair standing outdoors in backlit evening light
Natural wine 2 min read
Everwild Wines
Two former film-industry burnouts traded the screen for the cellar, co-fermenting low-intervention Sierra Foothills wines designed to slow life down.
La Ghibellina - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Cortese 2 min read
La Ghibellina
Alberto Ghibellini and Marina Galli founded La Ghibellina in 2000 on twenty organic hectares in Gavi, producing Cortese di Gavi DOCG wines that reflect the limestone clay soils of southern Piedmont.
Case Vecchie - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Italy 2 min read
Case Vecchie
A tiny morainic-hill farm south of Lake Garda where Paolo Ferri makes spontaneous, low-sulfur wines alongside honey, olive oil and ancient grains.
La Colombera - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Colli tortonesi 2 min read
La Colombera
Elisa Semino, the self-styled Queen of Timorasso, leads her family's three-generation estate in the Colli Tortonesi, where she has championed the near-extinct grape since her 1996 oenology thesis.