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.
Domaine Saint-Cyr
A fourth-generation Beaujolais estate where Raphael Saint-Cyr converted 23 hectares to organic farming and plows his crus with two draft horses.
Jean-Francois Debourg
A sixth-generation Pierres Dorees grower who turned vigneron in 2016 and now bottles additive-free Beaujolais from Gamay, Viognier, and Chardonnay.
Istine
Angela Fronti turned her family's scattered high-altitude Radda and Gaiole plots into one of Chianti Classico's most precise expressions of single-vineyard Sangiovese.
Vini Rabasco
Iole Rabasco, former lawyer turned biodynamic vigneron, farms 3.5 hectares in Pianella, Abruzzo, making zero-sulfur Trebbiano and Montepulciano without additions of any kind.
I Castagnucoli
In a tiny corner of the volcanic Colli Euganei, Nicola Dal Santo farms two and a half hectares organically, carrying on the spontaneous-fermentation wines his father began in the 1980s.
Raft Wines
Jennifer Reichardt launched Raft Wines in 2016 in Sonoma County, sourcing certified-organic fruit from across California to make low-intervention, food-friendly natural wines at honest prices.
Tenuta Saiano
The Maggioli family's 100-hectare estate in Valmarecchia, Romagna, produces biodynamically farmed Sangiovese and Grechetto Gentile with spontaneous fermentation and no filtration.
Cascina Grillo
Guido Zampaglione's organically farmed Monferrato estate in Piedmont, working native varieties like Cortese, Barbera and Freisa in a patient, low-intervention style.
Forlorn Hope
From Rorick Heritage Vineyard in the Sierra Foothills, Matthew Rorick makes spontaneously fermented natural wines from California's overlooked grapes, regions and styles.
Hervé Souhaut
From granite slopes in the hills above the Rhône, Hervé Souhaut coaxes ethereal, perfumed reds out of century-old Syrah and Gamay at Domaine Romaneaux-Destezet.
Georgas
A fourth-generation grower outside Athens reviving zero-sulfite Retsina and Savatiano from organically farmed vines in the historic Mesogaia plain.
Domaine de Montille
A storied Volnay estate where Etienne de Montille turned a famously austere, terroir-driven house fully biodynamic across roughly twenty Cote d'Or appellations.