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 Tessier
A 7.5-hectare Meursault domaine Arnaud Tessier took over at 22, devoted to white Burgundy from some of the village's finest climats.
Caves de Seyseel
An alpine sparkling-wine revival in Savoie, where two families bought back the historic Royal Seyssel label in 2007 to remake a wine once famous across Europe.
Hannes and Claudiu
A friendship-turned-winery in Germany's South Pfalz where Hannes Bergdoll and Claudiu Dumea bottle hands-off, unsulfured wines of immense drinkability.
Strekov 1075
Zsolt Sütő farms 12 hectares of indigenous Slovak varieties on the Pannonian Plain, making zero-sulfur natural wines in a village first documented in 1075 AD. His holistic, wooden-stake viticulture has inspired a generation of Central European winemakers.
Henri Chauvet
A former finance professional turned vigneron, Henri Chauvet farms 10.5 hectares of Gamay, Pinot Noir, and Chardonnay on the volcanic slopes of Boudes in the Côtes d'Auvergne.
Ruth Lewandowski
Evan Lewandowski ferments Mendocino fruit in California, then drives the live juice in a refrigerated U-Haul to Salt Lake City to finish it, building a Utah winery named after his favorite book of the Old Testament.
Domaine Gross
In the medieval village of Gueberschwihr, four generations of the Gross family have moved from conventional Alsace farming to biodynamics and bold, unsulfured orange wines.
Wonderwerk
A Gilroy-based natural wine label from two Virginia friends, sourcing eclectic grapes across California for playful co-ferments, pet-nats, and orange wines made to be shared.
Le Fraghe
Matilde Poggi has spent more than 40 years proving that Bardolino, long overlooked, can produce wines of genuine elegance and depth, farming 28 certified-organic hectares on the eastern shores of Lake Garda with complete independence.
Domaine du Possible
After training with Cornas legend Thierry Allemand, Loic Roure rebuilt an old cooperative cellar in Lansac into one of the Roussillon's purest natural-wine voices.
Holger Koch
On the volcanic Kaiserstuhl, Holger and Gabriele Koch craft some of Germany's most delicate Pinots from Burgundian and Alsatian mass selections, fermented wild and aged on the lees.
Volcanalia
Rossella Mastrotto returned from a global wine journey to revive ancient Garganega vines on Gambellara's volcanic basalt soils, naming her estate after a Roman harvest festival.