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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Marco de Bartoli tasting wine at his estate in Samperi, Marsala, Sicily
Grillo 3 min read
Marco de Bartoli
Marco de Bartoli abandoned a career as a professional racing driver to rescue Marsala from industrial decline, creating the unfortified Vecchio Samperi and restoring the ancient in perpetuum method to western Sicily.
Claude Courtois (center) and Etienne Courtois (left) at Les Cailloux du Paradis, Sologne, Loire Valley
Biodynamic 3 min read
Les Cailloux du Paradis
Claude and Etienne Courtois farm over 40 grape varieties on flinty Sologne soils, making zero-input natural wines that have defined the Loire's radical edge since Claude began organic farming in the 1970s.
Beno Stewart and Monica Varriale of Catch & Release Wines in the vineyard
Natural wine 1 min read
Catch & Release
A Sonoma partnership between Monica Varriale and Beno Stewart making delicate, low-intervention California wines from organic and biodynamic fruit.
Andreas Ziniel, natural wine producer, on his tractor among the vines in Burgenland, Austria
Austria 2 min read
Andreas Ziniel
Trained across South Africa, Germany and Switzerland, 'Zini' farms 15 hectares near the Zicksee, making fresh, low-intervention reds and whites with short macerations.
Christian Tschida, natural wine producer, standing in his vineyard in Austria's Burgenland
Austria 2 min read
Christian Tschida
An Austrian natural-wine star, Christian Tschida makes zero-sulfur, unmanipulated wines by Lake Neusiedl and calls himself a tuner, not a winemaker.
Jean-Pierre Robinot of L'Ange Vin standing in his Loire Valley vineyard
France 2 min read
Jean-Pierre Robinot
A former Paris natural-wine bar owner turned Loire vigneron, fermenting sulfur-free Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis in limestone caves beneath his vines.
Marc Barriot of Clot de l'Origine
France 2 min read
Clot de L'Origine
A Roussillon estate where Marc and Caroline Barriot farm old vines across five villages, plow by horse and bottle schist-grown wines with almost no sulfur.