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.

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Bergkloster — natural wine producer
Germany 2 min read
Bergkloster
Fifth-generation Jason Groebe makes zero-sulfur Westhofen wines, spontaneously fermented and aged in large old oak, with no fining and no filtration.
Noel Diaz, founder of Purity Wine, standing among barrels in his Richmond, California winery
California 2 min read
Purity Wine
Noel Diaz founded Purity Wine in Richmond, California in 2013, building a collective of natural winemakers committed to zero-zero production and opening the natural wine world to a broader, more diverse community.
Alberto and Barbara Paltrinieri, fourth-generation owners of Cantina Paltrinieri in Sorbara
Emilia-romagna 3 min read
Paltrinieri
Four generations since 1926, Alberto and Barbara Paltrinieri farm 17 hectares of Lambrusco di Sorbara in the Cristo subzone near Modena, making bottle-fermented sparklers widely considered the variety's benchmark.
Joao Camizao and his wife Leila, the couple behind Sem Igual, in their home in the Vinho Verde region of Portugal
Portugal 2 min read
Joao Camizao
A former telecoms engineer turned vigneron crafting low-intervention Vinho Verde from his family's century-old Azal and Arinto vines under the Sem Igual label.
Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds of Iruai standing in their Scott Valley vineyard near Mount Shasta
California 2 min read
Iruai
A husband-and-wife project pioneering alpine grape varieties in the mountains around Mount Shasta, far from California's familiar wine country.
Gustavo Bauzá, head enologist at Casa de Uco, smiling in the winery barrel cellar holding a glass of wine
Argentina 2 min read
WTF + Casa de Uco
Casa de Uco's certified organic estate in Los Chacayes produces altitude-driven wines from Argentina's most dynamic natural wine corner, the high Uco Valley.
Black and white portrait of Giusto Occhipinti at COS Winery, Sicily, highlighting natural wine craftsmanship.
Amphora 2 min read
COS
Three friends who could not legally buy wine when they made their first vintage went on to rescue Cerasuolo di Vittoria and build one of the world's largest amphora cellars.
Il Cancelliere - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Aglianico 2 min read
Il Cancelliere
In the high Taurasi village of Montemarano, the Romano family makes uncompromising, long-aged Aglianico from old peasant traditions and nothing but old wood.
Costadila founder Ernesto Cattel tasting a glass of his col fondo wine
Col fondo 2 min read
Costadila
Costadila is the col fondo pioneer Ernesto Cattel built in the Treviso hills, reviving cloudy bottle-refermented Prosecco with native grapes and no added sulfites.
Davide Bentivegna, natural wine producer of Etnella, standing among barrels with Mount Etna behind his vineyard in Sicily, Italy
Italy 2 min read
Etnella
A former Siemens manager walked away from corporate life to make humanistic, native-yeast wines from old vines scattered across the high contrade of Mount Etna.
Domaine Du Val D’Argan - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Essaouira 2 min read
Domaine Du Val D’Argan
Charles Melia left Chateauneuf-du-Pape to found Morocco's first organic-certified vineyard near Essaouira, planting Rhone varieties in virgin terroir in 1994.
Jessika Reis and Philipp Musevi of Lesom Weine, natural wine producer in the Mosel, Germany
Biodynamic 2 min read
Lesom Weine
Jessika Reis and Philipp Musevi farm 1.3 steep-slate hectares across 20 kilometers of the Mosel, making spontaneously fermented Rieslings that carry the mineral intensity of old family parcels without compromise.