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.
Celler de les Aus
The natural-wine, zero-sulfite arm of Alta Alella, named for the birds of the Serralada de Marina and built on pioneering no-sulfur cava.
Autour de l'Anne
A former Radiohead roadie quit corporate life after a car crash and now makes what she calls Loiredoc wines: Languedoc fruit raised in the Loire.
La Cattiva
A collective of seven friends from Puglia who revived a dairy farm in Sammichele di Bari and began making spontaneously fermented, zero-sulfur wines from Primitivo and Trebbiano in 2019.
Les Bories Jefferies
British-born Jo Jefferies farms just 4 hectares of volcanic basalt soil around the village of Caux in the Hérault, making intensely mineral natural wines that have earned him a reputation as one of Languedoc's most compelling producers.
Delinquente Wine Co.
Con-Greg Grigoriou is rewriting the Riverland's reputation with bright, smashable wines from heat-loving Southern Italian grapes.
Domaine Le Briseau
A pioneering Coteaux-du-Loir estate founded in 2002 by Christian Chaussard and Nathalie Gaubicher, whose zero-added-anything Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis helped shape Loire natural wine.
De la Soif
A thirst-quenching California natural wine line from the Deux Punx duo, made for importer Merchants of Thirst.
Simon Busser
Simon Busser farms 5 hectares of Cot, Merlot, and Chenin Blanc along the Lot river near Cahors using horse-drawn plowing and zero additives, a quiet pillar of France's radical natural wine community.
Azienda Agricola Imazio Colline Novaresi
Azienda Agricola Imazio is a family estate in the Colline Novaresi of northern Piedmont, with land records dating to the 1700s. Certified organic by ICEA, they farm sustainably and specialize in Nebbiolo, known locally as Spanna, alongside other natural wines.
I Chicchi
Near the Roman coast, Enrico Rosati and Federica farm a single hectare of Bordeaux varieties biodynamically, fermenting spontaneously with nothing added in the cellar.
La Mongestine
Harry and Céline Gozlan, with winemaker Maxime Gamard, farm 31 organic hectares on a high-altitude Provence plateau above Jouques, crafting mineral, fruit-forward wines that stand apart from the region's mainstream rosé.
Domaine du Temps
On a former 18th-century priory north of Carcassonne, Lauranne Plegat and Jeremy Gobert farm thirteen biodynamic hectares ringed by sixty hectares of protective garrigue.