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.
Gabrio Bini
A former Milanese architect who buries terracotta amphorae among ancient bush vines on the volcanic island of Pantelleria, ploughing by horse to make some of natural wine's most singular bottles.
Jean-Paul Dubost
A fourth-generation Lantignie vigneron farming biodynamic granite and blue-clay parcels across Beaujolais crus, fermenting with native yeasts and minimal sulfur.
Andrea Calek
A Czech émigré turned Ardèche natural-wine pioneer, Andrea Calek farms five chemical-free hectares and bottles Syrah, Grenache and Merlot with no added sulfites, fining or filtration.
Domini del Leone
A Fidora family label from one of Italy's oldest organic estates, certified organic on the Venetian mainland since 1974 and biodynamic since 2018.
Andi Knauss
Fourth-generation Remstal vigneron Andi Knauss farms over a hundred tiny plots organically, bottling Trollinger, Lemberger and Riesling with native ferments and little to no sulfur.
Fornacella
A small organic Montalcino estate, Fornacella farms about 2.5 hectares of Sangiovese at 300 to 400 meters and ages its Brunello for 36 months in Slavonian oak.
Domaine Tardieux-Gal
A certified-organic Touraine estate in Theseco-farmed since 2021 by Simon Tardieux and Jerome Gal under the principles of peasant agriculture.
Le Machin
Mike Roth and Craig Winchester launched Le Machin as a focused, low-intervention project sourcing CCOF-certified organic Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, and Syrah from the fog-cooled hills of Santa Barbara County.
Slobodne Vinarstvo
Slobodne Vinarstvo -- 'free winemaking' -- is a family estate in western Slovakia reclaimed after communist-era seizure and rebuilt over 25 years into one of the country's most respected natural wine producers.
Celler Succes Vinicola
A young Catalan couple who started a winery at age 20 and turned the overlooked Trepat grape of Conca de Barbera into a new regional benchmark.
Lo-Fi Wines
Mike Roth and Craig Winchester built Lo-Fi Wines in Santa Barbara County on a nothing-added, nothing-taken-away philosophy, making low-alcohol, Beaujolais- and Loire-inspired naturals from certified organic and biodynamic vineyards since 2012.
Hollow Wines
Dr. Quinn Hobbs left academia and marketing to make low-intervention, lighter-footprint California wines under his Hollow Wines label, leaning into expressive skin-contact whites.