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.
Oro di Diamanti
Riccardo and Susanna Diamanti farm 3.5 organic hectares in Zola Predosa, crafting pet-nat and traditional-method sparklers from indigenous Pignoletto that are unfined, unfiltered, and sulfite-free.
La Poiesa
Roberto Cristi returned to his family's Piacenza farm in 2009 and opened La Poiesa in 2013, producing zero-intervention pét-nats and still wines from Ortrugo, Malvasia, and Barbera on organic Emilian clay.
Paolo Fasolo
Alberto Buratti revived his grandfather's 1972 Euganean Hills farm under the Faedesfa label in 2020, farming 3.2 hectares on volcanic soils and making zero-sulfur pet-nats from rare local varieties.
Furlani
Matteo Furlani is the self-styled wizard of in-bottle fermentation, coaxing radical alpine pet-nats and frizzante from biodynamic vines high above Trento.
Loose Wines
Los Angeles lifestyle duo Bo Yeong and Kevin Carney created Loose Wines with Emilia-Romagna producer Massimo Randi: a trio of organic, ancestral-method pet nat sparkling wines from indigenous Longanesi and Malbo Gentile grapes.
Gearhead Wines
Former fisherman and Acme baker Craig West makes tiny, foot-tread, zero-sulfur California lots after one evening stomping grapes changed his life.
Borachio
A South Australian label run by Alicia Basa and Mark Warner, who met at a hardcore show in 2003, trained at Jauma, and now make sulfur-free wine through acidity and lab rigor rather than natural-wine mystique.