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.
Marc Kreydenweiss
The Kreydenweiss family has farmed the grand cru slopes of Andlau since 1850 and today bottles some of Alsace's most terroir-faithful wines under the direction of Antoine Kreydenweiss.
Old Westminister
Winemaker Lisa Hinton and her siblings grow and vinify Maryland fruit with native yeasts and zero filtration at their Westminster farm, producing some of the East Coast's most compelling natural wines.
Vallarom
Organic Trentino estate in Avio farming since 1972, making native-yeast, low-intervention wines from Marzemino, Chardonnay, and local varieties under the Scienza family.
O2Y
A three-way collaboration between Olivier Guala, Yves Roy, and Yoshinori Kuroda in Poligny, Jura, making zero-sulfur, additive-free natural wines since 2020 from organically farmed plots between Arbois and Poligny.
De Levende
A Los Angeles importer's California-grown side project turning North Coast organic fruit into zero-zero, no-sulfur natural wine.
Jean Foillard
A founding member of Beaujolais's 'Gang of Four,' Jean Foillard crafts pure, age-worthy Morgon from old vines on the famed Cote du Py.
Sete Vini Naturali
Childhood friends Emiliano Giorgi and Arcangelo Galuppi founded Sete in 2013 to rescue the forgotten vineyards and grape varieties of Lazio's Amaseno river valley, one plot at a time.
Arianna Occhipinti
Sicily's most celebrated natural winemaker, who started at 22 with one hectare and now farms 40 hectares of red sand and limestone biodynamically near Vittoria.
Domaine Marcel Richaud
A founding figure of natural wine in the Rhône, Marcel Richaud made Cairanne a great terroir; his children Thomas, Claire, and Edith now carry the estate forward.
Envinate
Four oenology-school friends roam Spain's wildest Atlantic terruños, from Tenerife's volcanic slopes to the schist of Ribeira Sacra, making soulful, low-intervention wines.
Collecapretta
On the goat hill above Spoleto, three Mattioli generations farm ancient Umbrian vines and bottle by the moon, with no added yeast and no added sulfur.
Everwild Wines
Two former film-industry burnouts traded the screen for the cellar, co-fermenting low-intervention Sierra Foothills wines designed to slow life down.