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.
No Control
Former sports marketer turned punk-rock vigneron Vincent Marie launched No Control in 2012 in Volvic, Auvergne, farming 5 hectares of 117-year-old Gamay vines on volcanic soils with a horse and bottling every wine without sulfur, filtration, or any oenological additions.
Azienda Agricola Denavolo
Giulio Armani's solo project on Monte Denavolo, where white grapes macerate for months on their skins and are treated exactly as if they were red.
Domaine du Haut Bourg
Fourth-generation brothers Herve and Nicolas Choblet age Melon de Bourgogne on its lees for years beside Lake Grand-Lieu, redrawing the map of serious Muscadet.
Monastero Suore Cistercensi
The Cistercian nuns of Vitorchiano, Lazio, have farmed their five volcanic hectares organically since the early 1990s, hand-harvesting and spontaneously fermenting whites of rare meditative depth under the guidance of Giampiero Bea.
Barbara Lebled
Trained alongside her father Laurent, Barbara Lebled launched her own Touraine project in 2019, working organically across the central Loire's full grape palette.
Caneva da Nani
On the steep Glera slopes of Guia, the Canello family makes cloudy, crown-capped col fondo Prosecco that refements in bottle and proudly sits outside the official DOC rules.
Vodopivec
Paolo Vodopivec dedicates his Carso estate exclusively to Vitovska, fermenting in Georgian amphora to produce some of Italy's most profound orange wines.
Celler Vendrell
A small Montsant family winery in Marca farming 25 hectares of old Grenache and Carignan organically, with some bottlings made naturally and without added sulfites.
Domaine du Bel Air
Five generations on, Pierre Gauthier and his son Rodolphe plow Benais by draft horse to coax deep, ageworthy Cabernet Franc from Bourgueil's clay-limestone tuffeau.
L'Acino
A Calabrian estate born from three friends with no wine background, now led by Dino Briglio, reviving forgotten indigenous grapes on the edge of the Pollino park.
Vivanterre
A cross-regional natural wine project from Auvergne's Patrick Bouju and Justine Loiseau, blending grapes from volcanic soils, Alsace, and Beaujolais with zero sulfites added.
Cacique Maravilla
Seventh-generation winemaker Manuel Moraga farms pre-phyl, horse-plowed Páís vines over a buried lava river, making sulfur-free Pipeño from a vineyard older than the United States.