Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Charles Melia left Chateauneuf-du-Pape to found Morocco's first organic-certified vineyard near Essaouira, planting Rhone varieties in virgin terroir in 1994.

Sabina Cantarelli stewards her mother's 1961 Lake Trasimeno estate with the same conviction that founded it: organic viticulture, spontaneous fermentation, and wines built for the table, not the trophy shelf.

Alfredo Mastropietro revives the ancient wine culture of San Vito Romano in Lazio, farming 9 organic hectares on the edge of the Apennines to produce skin-contact Bellone and traditional Cesanese that honour four generations of family viticulture.

Ramon Parera and Jordi Arnan farm 35 organic hectares at Can Comas in Alt Penedes, where Xarel-lo, Sumoll, and rare indigenous varieties express clay-limestone terroir at 250 metres elevation.

Marco Cecchini farms eight organic hectares in the eastern hills of Friuli with tireless hand attention, producing indigenous-variety wines of purity and restraint from Faedis in the Colli Orientali.

Matilde Poggi has spent more than 40 years proving that Bardolino, long overlooked, can produce wines of genuine elegance and depth, farming 28 certified-organic hectares on the eastern shores of Lake Garda with complete independence.

Martin Texier, son of northern Rhône legend Eric Texier, launched his own domaine in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban in 2014 and makes native-yeast, zero-sulfur wines from 5 hectares planted in clay, schist, gneiss, and granite.

Christophe Aguilar farms 100 organic hectares near Bezouce in the southern Rhône, producing honest wines from Grenache, Syrah, and Carignan named for the wild Mediterranean herb growing throughout his vines.

A Fidora family label from one of Italy's oldest organic estates, certified organic on the Venetian mainland since 1974 and biodynamic since 2018.

Mike Roth and Craig Winchester launched Le Machin as a focused, low-intervention project sourcing CCOF-certified organic Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah from the fog-cooled hills of Santa Barbara County.

On a 17th-century estate in Predappio, Marco Cirese farms 30 certified-organic hectares and makes mineral Romagna Sangiovese that honours the subzone's distinct clay and limestone soils.

Valentin Montanet tends 20 organically farmed hectares at Vézelay in Burgundy's Yonne, where he and his parents Jean and Catherine produce Kimmeridgian-limestone Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with spontaneous fermentation and minimal sulfur.