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.
Domaine Gérard Villet
A tiny zero-zero estate in Arbois where Gérard and Christine Villet have farmed organically since 1988, mentoring a generation of Jura natural winemakers along the way.
Casot des Mailloles
A cult no-sulfur domaine on the steep terraces above Banyuls, founded by Alain Castex and Ghislaine Magnier and now carried on by Catalan winemaker Jordi Perez.
Deux Punx
Two aging punks moonlighting as Napa winemakers, turning native-ferment juice into quirky, artist-labeled natural wines.
La Dernière Goutte
Cuban-American sommelier Juan Sanchez has run this beloved Saint-Germain-des-Prés wine shop since 1996, championing small-producer, organic, and biodynamic French wines decades before natural wine became fashionable.
I Castagnucoli
In a tiny corner of the volcanic Colli Euganei, Nicola Dal Santo farms two and a half hectares organically, carrying on the spontaneous-fermentation wines his father began in the 1980s.
Etnella
A former Siemens manager walked away from corporate life to make humanistic, native-yeast wines from old vines scattered across the high contrade of Mount Etna.
Jules Chauvet | The Godfather of Natural Wine
Jules Chauvet, born in 1907 into a Beaujolais family of vignerons, is often called the 'godfather of natural wine.' A vigneron and chemist, he pioneered the scientific thinking behind low-intervention winemaking and inspired the founders of the modern natural wine movement.
Domaine Hors Ciel
A cross-cultural Minervois project where Victor Gourreau and Emma Olson farm old Mourvèdre by hand and ferment ancestral grapes without additives.
Holden Wine Company
An Oregon label devoted to northern Italian grape varieties, where Sterling Whitted ferments organically farmed fruit with native yeast and almost no sulfur.
Smallfry
Wayne Ahrens and Suzi Hilder farm 18 certified organic and biodynamic hectares in Barossa's Vine Vale and Eden Valley, making natural wines from old vines with native ferments and minimal intervention.
Skerk
Sandi Skerk farms 7 hectares of Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana, and Terrano on the windswept limestone plateau of Carso, just meters from Slovenia, making age-worthy skin-contact whites and refined reds from a cellar carved into bedrock.
End of Nowhere
Amador County's only homegrown natural winery, where a former New York sommelier turned farmer bottles native-yeast, no-additive wines from the Sierra Foothills.