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.
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.
Partida Creus
Former architects Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa left Turin for a remote village in Baix Penedes, where they rescue old vines of obscure native varieties and make some of Spain's most distinctive zero-zero natural wines.
Las Jaras
Winemaker Joel Burt and actor-director Eric Wareheim founded Las Jaras in 2017, sourcing from organic and sustainably farmed old-vine sites across Mendocino, Sonoma and Oregon to produce low-intervention California wines that are food-friendly, lower-alcohol and genuinely fun.
Margins
Megan Bell founded Margins in 2016 to spotlight California's overlooked grape varieties and marginal wine regions, building one of the state's most distinctive low-intervention portfolios before closing in 2026.
Radikon – Stanko's Legacy
The late Stanko Radikon, a true icon of the renaissance of natural wines and orange wines, once said: “I sent my son Sasa to get a…
Fiky Fiky
A playful Los Angeles natural wine project from friends Ty Steidle and Brock Larson, making wild-fermented California wines from organic and regenerative vineyards.
Mas Champart
Founded by Isabelle and Matthieu Champart in Saint-Chinian in 1976 and now guided by winemaker Noémie Vidil since 2023, Mas Champart farms 16 certified-organic hectares on steep limestone terraces at 210-300 metres elevation, making age-worthy, terroir-driven Saint-Chinian reds, whites, and rosé.
Marie Thibault
From a biology background to Touraine's hillside slopes, Marie Thibault cultivates just four hectares of 50-year-old Chenin, Gamay, Grolleau, and Côt with Ecocert organic certification, crafting vivid, low-intervention wines in the quiet Azay-le-Rideau appellation.
Carolina Gatti – The Best Natural Prosecco
Carolina Gatti is more than just one of the pioneer natural vignerons in Veneto’s prosecco area, sadly a land rich with ancient farming and vinification traditions…
Cascina Lieto
A Japanese couple's micro-estate launched in 2018 in Castiglione Tinella, Piedmont, making organic, biodynamic, bottle-aged wines from Moscato, Cortese, Freisa, Barbera and Nebbiolo.
Guthrie Family Vineyards
In Sonoma, New Zealand-born Blair Guthrie and his wife Caroline make small-batch, low-intervention wines from organically grown grapes, built from scratch.