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.
Les Athlètes du Vin
Les Athlètes du Vin is a Loire Valley négociant project born from the Vini Be Good collective, bringing together some of the region's finest natural producers to make honest, value-driven wines under labels designed by Michel Tolmer.
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
In natural wine, few names carry as much weight as Jules Chauvet. Often referred to as the "godfather of natural wine," Chauvet's influence on modern winemaking…
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.