Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Around Poligny, Yves Roy farms five hectares of ancient Savagnin and Poulsard with humility, bottling zero-intervention Jura wines under a name that means beginner.

From 20 hectares of alberello-trained vines near Marsala in western Sicily, Nino Barraco produces uncertified organic wines of bracing maritime character using indigenous varieties and zero fining or filtration since his first vintage in 2004.

Alfredo Mastropietro revives the ancient wine culture of San Vito Romano in Lazio, farming 9 organic hectares on the edge of the Apennines to produce skin-contact Bellone and traditional Cesanese that honour four generations of family viticulture.

An Oregon label devoted to northern Italian grape varieties, where Sterling Whitted ferments organically farmed fruit with native yeast and almost no sulfur.

Ramon Parera and Jordi Arnan farm 35 organic hectares at Can Comas in Alt Penedes, where Xarel-lo, Sumoll, and rare indigenous varieties express clay-limestone terroir at 250 metres elevation.

A historic Corbieres estate in Boutenac where the Laboucarie family pioneered carbonic maceration and Bruno now makes ageworthy reds and rose.

Silvia Tezza, who came to wine without a winemaking family, rescued a walled clos of old Garganega vines near Verona to make sulfite-free, hands-off bottlings.

Raised by natural-Beaujolais pioneer Georges Descombes, Coquelet launched his own organic domaine at twenty and now bottles crunchy, low-sulfur Morgon and Chiroubles.

Self-taught winemaker Andrea Pendin founded Tenuta l'Armonia in 2010 in Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, crafting biodynamic blends from Garganega, Durella, and Tai Rosso on volcanic Veneto soils.

Les Equilibristes is a French collective founded in 2015 by wine merchant Francois de Monval and winemaker Florent Girou, uniting eight vignerons across regions from the Loire to Languedoc under a shared commitment to organic farming and minimal intervention.

A vine nursery fieldman turned vintner, Andrew Jones bottles California's overlooked corners as a personal catalog of the people and places he loves.

Wayne Ahrens and Suzi Hilder farm 18 certified organic and biodynamic hectares in Barossa's Vine Vale and Eden Valley, making natural wines from old vines with native ferments and minimal intervention.