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.
Koppitsch
A husband-and-wife estate on the shores of Lake Neusiedl making biodynamically inspired, hand-crafted natural wines from a family vineyard with five centuries of history.
Château Landra
At the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse, the Renoux family revived one of the Ventoux's oldest cellars and turned it fully natural.
Vin de Lagamba
Alanna Lagamba's Rheinhessen natural wine project: a Canadian-born, Berlin-formed winemaker making zero-sulfur, spontaneous pet-nats and sparkling Sekt from organic German fruit.
Il Tufiello
On a historic organic cereal farm at almost 800 meters in Alta Irpinia, Guido and Igiea Zampaglione make long-macerated, single-variety Fiano named for Don Quixote.
Welcome Stranger
A California natural wine project sourcing organic fruit from Mendocino's Open Hand Ranch, making zero-sulfur co-fermented wines of striking originality.
Fable Farm
In the Green Mountains of Barnard, Vermont, brothers Jon and Chris Piana ferment foraged apples, grapes, herbs, and honey into living wines on a closed-loop farm.
Montemelino
Sabina Cantarelli stewards her mother's 1961 Lake Trasimeno estate with the same conviction that founded it: organic viticulture, spontaneous fermentation, and wines built for the table, not the trophy shelf.
Jean-Paul et Charly Thevenet
A father-and-son Morgon estate carrying forward the Gang of Four legacy with biodynamic old vines, carbonic maceration, and barely any sulfur.
Brigaldara
On the foothills of Monte Masua, the Cesari family turns Corvina and Corvinone into Valpolicella and Amarone from a 120-hectare estate whose name dates to the twelfth century.
Mas Pas Re
Julien Trichard and Sara Hernandez make vibrant, zero-sulfite wines from 9 hectares of organic and biodynamic vines spread across Gignac and Plaissan in the Languedoc, working from a repurposed cooperative cellar in Vendémian since 2009.
Domaine Hors Ciel
A cross-cultural Minervois project where Victor Gourreau and Emma Olson farm old Mourvèdre by hand and ferment ancestral grapes without additives.
Joseph Cattin
One of Alsace's largest family-owned estates, the Cattins have grown vines in Voegtlinshoffen for twelve generations and built a reputation for Cremant and Grand Cru wines.