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.

Thibault Ducroux and his brother Dimitri holding bottles of Morgon in their barrel cellar
Beaujolais 2 min read
Thibault Ducroux
Third-generation vigneron Thibault Ducroux tends 10.5 organically farmed hectares across Beaujolais, Morgon, and Fleurie, making zero-additive Gamay via whole-bunch carbonic maceration.
Emidio Pepe, natural wine producer, in the vineyard in Abruzzo, Italy
Abruzzo 2 min read
Emidio Pepe
For sixty years this Torano Nuovo estate has hand-destemmed every grape, aged in glass-lined cement, and recorked decades-old bottles by hand before they leave the cellar.
Remi Pouizin, winemaker behind Clovis
Biodynamic 2 min read
Clovis
A Southern Rhone collaboration by biodynamic vigneron Remi Pouizin, blending estate and neighboring organic fruit into honest, terroir-driven Cotes du Rhone.
Jean-Marc Dreyer drawing wine from barrel in his Alsace cellar
Alsace 1 min read
Jean-Marc Dreyer
An Alsace vigneron devoted to skin-macerated orange wines, fermenting native-yeast cuvees with no added sulfur in his cellar near Rosheim.
The Dibenedetto family of L'Archetipo winery in Castellaneta, Puglia
Aglianico 3 min read
L'Archetipo
Francesco Valentino Dibenedetto and his family farm 30 hectares in Castellaneta, Puglia using synergistic agriculture inspired by Fukuoka and Steiner, producing unfiltered, zero-sulfur wines from rare indigenous Apulian varieties.
Ferdinando Principiano holding a piece of limestone soil in his Barolo vineyard
Barolo 3 min read
Principiano
Ferdinando Principiano farms 21 hectares biodynamically in the Barolo zone, making zero-compromise Nebbiolo that combines ecological obsession with exceptional terroir at Boscareto and Ravera.
Giuseppe Scirto and Valeria Franco standing together among old Etna vines
Etna 2 min read
Vini Scirto
Former IT expert and language graduate who inherited century-old Etna vines and now make some of Sicily's most wild and unfiltered natural wines.
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.
Lorenzo and Andrea Piccin of Grifalco in their Monte Vulture vineyard
Aglianico 2 min read
Grifalco
On the volcanic slopes of Monte Vulture in Basilicata, the Piccin family makes only Aglianico, from organic vines up to 80 years old.
Vigneron Grégory Guillaume outside his farm in the Ardèche
Ardèche 1 min read
Grégory Guillaume
In the limestone hills of the Ardèche, Grégory Guillaume makes idealistic natural wines that work with the elements rather than against them.
Cinzia Sommariva holding a bottle of Prosecco in front of green vines
Conegliano valdobbiadene 2 min read
Sommariva
Cinzia Sommariva grows 50 hectares of hand-harvested Glera on the UNESCO-listed hills of Conegliano Valdobbiadene, crafting Prosecco Superiore DOCG with a family-run commitment to quality and sustainability.