Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

South African-born winemaker Dieter Cronje makes small-batch natural wines under his Riding Monkey label in Orcutt, California, sourcing from organically farmed vineyards in the cool Alisos Canyon and Santa Maria Valley with skin-contact and minimal-intervention techniques.

A family winery rooted in Rome's ancient Appia Antica Park since 1945, Riserva della Cascina bottles certified-organic wines grown on volcanic soils just minutes from the Colosseum.

Oakland-based fashion designer Megan Sekermestrovich makes just 60 cases a year of zero-zero California natural wine under the Lula label, sourcing from growers who pay living wages.

A third-generation Gambellara grower farming 14 volcanic hectares organically and biodynamically since 1997 to draw deep minerality from Garganega and Durella.

A young couple at the foot of Monte Grappa grows offbeat grapes like Bronner and Riesling organically, fermenting wild and aging across steel, cement, wood and amphora.

A tiny zero-zero estate in Arbois where Gérard and Christine Villet have farmed organically since 1988, mentoring a generation of Jura natural winemakers along the way.

Out of a Berkeley cellar, Cassidy Miller co-ferments Mendocino grapes with apples and pears into low-alcohol, spontaneously fermented wines and ciders.

Domenico and Francesca reclaimed a long-abandoned family property outside Gerace in 2010 to grow Calabria's ancient native grapes — Greco Bianco, Greco Nero, Calabrese Nero, Aglianico — with biodynamic principles and a name meaning 'to be born again' in the local dialect.

Darek Trowbridge, great-grandson of Russian River Valley pioneer Giuseppe Martinelli, farms biodynamic century-old vines in Fulton and vinifies rare heritage grapes with foot-treading, native yeast, and zero filtration.

Named for sommelier Rajat Parr's father, Brij is his negociant label, buying from organically farmed Central Coast vineyards and bottling them with almost no intervention.

On Bordeaux's Right Bank, the Hubert family farms Cotes de Bourg biodynamically, with siblings Guillaume and Rachel making pure, low-sulfur reds.

A cult no-sulfur domaine on the steep terraces above Banyuls, founded by Alain Castex and Ghislaine Magnier and now carried on by Catalan winemaker Jordi Perez.