Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Historic Georgian winery in Baghdati, Imereti, fermenting rare indigenous varieties in qvevri using traditional methods that predate the modern wine world by millennia.

Sandi Skerk farms 7 hectares of Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana, and Terrano on the windswept limestone plateau of Carso, just meters from Slovenia, making age-worthy skin-contact whites and refined reds from a cellar carved into bedrock.

Guillaume Reynouard's biodynamic estate in Le Puy-Notre-Dame brings 17th-century Saumur terroir to life through Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, and rare Pineau d'Aunis with zero added sulfur.

A career-changing Swiss couple farm vertiginous Valais slopes by hand, fermenting with wild yeast and no sulfur to bottle some of the Alps' most singular natural wines.

The Nofrini family and Danilo Marcucci produce deeply traditional, completely natural Umbrian wines from hilltop vineyards overlooking Lake Trasimeno at 600 meters elevation.

Amador County's only homegrown natural winery, where a former New York sommelier turned farmer bottles native-yeast, no-additive wines from the Sierra Foothills.

Third-generation Sonoma Mountain winemaker and godfather of California natural wine, making sulfite-free, dry-farmed Zinfandel since 1979.

Marco Cecchini farms eight organic hectares in the eastern hills of Friuli with tireless hand attention, producing indigenous-variety wines of purity and restraint from Faedis in the Colli Orientali.

James Jelks makes dry-farmed, sulfur-light California wines from old mixed-variety vineyards around Santa Cruz, dressed in Japanese-style woodcut labels.

Winemaker Zaza Gagua left Tbilisi in 2015 to farm the subtropical lowlands of Samegrelo in western Georgia, cultivating ten indigenous grape varieties on four organic hectares and fermenting in qvevri to make wild, authentic expressions of one of the wine world's oldest regions.

Two brothers in Germany's northern Pfalz turning a fifth-generation family farm into one of the country's most exciting natural and pet-nat addresses, with their grandmother drawing the labels.

At the end of a cypress-lined road in the Corbieres, Laetitia Ourliac and Rodolphe Gianesini farm a 15-hectare garden of Mediterranean vines for soulful natural wines.