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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Massimiliana Spinola, natural wine producer, at her biodynamic estate Castello di Tassarolo in Gavi, Piedmont, Italy
Biodynamic 2 min read
Castello di Tassarolo
A Gavi estate held by the Spinola family since the 14th century, where Massimiliana Spinola farms biodynamically with draft horses and made the first Gavi without added sulfur.
La Ghibellina - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Cortese 2 min read
La Ghibellina
Alberto Ghibellini and Marina Galli founded La Ghibellina in 2000 on twenty organic hectares in Gavi, producing Cortese di Gavi DOCG wines that reflect the limestone clay soils of southern Piedmont.
La Colombera - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Colli tortonesi 2 min read
La Colombera
Elisa Semino, the self-styled Queen of Timorasso, leads her family's three-generation estate in the Colli Tortonesi, where she has championed the near-extinct grape since her 1996 oenology thesis.
Guido Zampaglione and Igiea Zampaglione of Tenuta Grillo at a wine fair, holding bottles
Italy 2 min read
Tenuta Grillo
Guido Zampaglione tends 16 organically farmed hectares in Gamalero, Alto Monferrato, crafting patient, age-worthy skin-contact whites and traditional reds released 8 to 15 years after harvest.
Giancarlo and Marco Petterino at their estate in Gattinara, Piedmont
Alto piemonte 3 min read
Marco Petterino
Marco Petterino farms just 2.5 hectares across three of Gattinara's top crus, releasing Nebbiolo riservas a decade after harvest that stand among Alto Piemonte's most patient and singular wines.
Cascina Grillo - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Cortese 1 min read
Cascina Grillo
Guido Zampaglione's organically farmed Monferrato estate in Piedmont, working native varieties like Cortese, Barbera and Freisa in a patient, low-intervention style.
Brangero — natural wine producer
Italy 2 min read
Brangero
Three generations in Diano d'Alba, Marco Brangero blends inherited tradition with a modern hand, reaching to Verduno and Serralunga for his Barolo.
Giulia Negri, the Barolo Girl, tasting grapes in her Serradenari vineyard in La Morra
Barolo 2 min read
Giulia Negri Serradenari
Known as the Barolo Girl, Giulia Negri makes elegant, high-altitude Barolo and Burgundy-inspired Pinot and Chardonnay from La Morra's highest vineyards.
Alfio Cavallotto tasting a glass of Barolo in the family cellar
Barolo 2 min read
Cavallotto
A fourth-generation Barolo estate on the Bricco Boschis hill that has farmed organically since 1976 and bottles single-vineyard Nebbiolo from one unbroken slope.
Bonzano — natural wine producer
Italy 2 min read
Bonzano
Wine has been made at this Monferrato castle since 1491; today the Bonzano family champions native Barbera, Grignolino, and the rare Albarossa.
Angelo Negro — natural wine producer
Arneis 3 min read
Angelo Negro
A Roero family whose deeds reach back to 1670, with a forebear who bottled one of the first dry Arneis on record in 1971.
Ercole - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Barbera 2 min read
Ercole
An everyday-Piedmont label built with a generations-old Monferrato growers' cooperative, putting honest, old-vine wines in screw-cap liter bottles.