Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Thomas Angles farms 5 organically tended hectares of old Carignan, Aramon, and Grenache near Saint-Chinian in the Languedoc, making minimal-intervention reds full of garrigue character.

A tiny morainic-hill farm south of Lake Garda where Paolo Ferri makes spontaneous, low-sulfur wines alongside honey, olive oil and ancient grains.

Thierry and Sophie Chardon run Domaine de l'Aumonier in Couffy on the Cher, farming 86 acres organically and biodynamically since 2006 for expressive Touraine Sauvignon, Gamay, and Pineau d'Aunis.

A South African raised in New Zealand, Tom Lubbe coaxes 10 to 12 percent wines from sun-baked Roussillon, chasing pale, weightless reds and textured, vivid whites.

Philippe and Céline Wies farm 14 biodynamic, Demeter-certified hectares of ancient schist terraces in Maury, Roussillon, coaxing saline, mineral wines from Lledoner Pelut, Grenache, and Carignan with no sulfur additions.

Four Loire Valley friends launched Les Tètes in 2011 to make organic, low-intervention wines in Touraine that are as fun to share as they are easy to drink.

Josef Schenter and Julia Nather founded Nibiru in 2015 in the cool northern reaches of Kamptal, Austria, farming 8 hectares to Demeter biodynamic standards and vinifying spontaneously in a mix of stainless steel and old wood for wines of crystalline mountain precision.

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.

Husband-and-wife growers Dionisio Meola and Lia Falato farm ten hillside hectares in the Sannio, championing Falanghina, Piedirosso and Aglianico the old way.

Vincent and Aurelie Garreta, a former environmental researcher and postal worker who traded careers for vines, farm 10 hectares of certified-organic old vines near Gordes in the Vaucluse, producing precise and fruit-driven natural wines from over a dozen traditional varieties.

Ninth-generation vigneron Olivier Coste stewards 65 hectares of Languedoc vines at Domaine Montrose near Pezenas, reviving near-extinct varieties like Carignan Blanc through organic, carbon-neutral farming.

Les Athlètes du Vin is a Loire Valley négociant project born from the Vini Be Good collective, bringing together some of the region's finest natural producers to make honest, value-driven wines under labels designed by Michel Tolmer.