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.

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Alex Schulkin of The Other Right holding a glass of red wine and smiling
Australia 2 min read
The Other Right
Russian-born Alex Schulkin makes no-additive, wild-fermented wines from certified organic vineyards in McLaren Vale and Adelaide Hills, drawing on his research science background at the AWRI.
Luigi Stalteri, natural wine producer of Longarico, smelling a glass of wine in his cellar in Alcamo, western Sicily, Italy
Catarratto 3 min read
Longarico
Luigi Stalteri and Alessandro Viola launched Longarico in 2015 on the slopes of Mount Bonifato above Alcamo, bringing organic Catarratto and red grapes from 350-meter clay-calcareous soils back to life as pure, unfiltered Sicilian naturals.
Jauma winemaker James Erskine tending Grenache vines in South Australia
Australia 2 min read
Jauma
Decorated sommelier turned natural-wine pioneer James Erskine makes additive-free Grenache and more from organic fruit in McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.
Alfio Cavallotto tasting a glass of Barolo in the family cellar
Barolo 2 min read
Cavallotto
A fourth-generation Barolo estate on the Bricco Boschis hill that has farmed organically since 1976 and bottles single-vineyard Nebbiolo from one unbroken slope.
Ruge, natural wine producer in Valdobbiadene, Veneto, Italy, standing in his Prosecco Superiore vineyard
Italy 3 min read
Ruge
Brothers Ruggero and Andrea Ruggeri farm 4 hectares of high-altitude Prosecco vineyards in Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene, crafting small-production Prosecco Superiore and Cartizze with deep respect for the land.
Todd Cavallo, co-founder and winemaker at Wild Arc Farm in Pine Bush, New York
Hudson valley 2 min read
Wild Arc Farm
Todd Cavallo and Crystal Cornish left Brooklyn to pioneer piquette production and hybrid winemaking in New York's Hudson Valley.
Pascal Janvier, natural wine producer, in his vineyard in the Jasnieres and Coteaux du Loir appellations of France's Loire Valley
Chenin blanc 3 min read
Pascal Janvier
Pascal Janvier tends nine hectares of Chenin Blanc and Pineau d'Aunis across 66 parcels in Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir, farming sustainably to produce the most mineral, flinty expressions of these little-known Loire appellations.
Helmut Dolde holding a bottle of his sparkling wine at his home in Linsenhofen, Swabia
Germany 2 min read
Helmut Dolde
A self-taught teacher-turned-vigneron, Helmut Dolde farms some of Germany's highest vineyards in Swabia and calls his crystalline whites "mountain wines."
Valentin Montanet of La Soeur Cadette, Vézelay Burgundy
Burgundy 2 min read
La Soeur Cadette
Valentin Montanet tends 20 organically farmed hectares at Vézelay in Burgundy's Yonne, where he and his parents Jean and Catherine produce Kimmeridgian-limestone Chardonnay and Pinot Noir with spontaneous fermentation and minimal sulfur.
Valentin Morel, natural wine producer, tasting wine in his cellar in Poligny, Jura, France
France 2 min read
Valentin Morel
Former government officer turned biodynamic vigneron farming 6 hectares in Poligny, Jura, making natural wines from Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, and Trousseau.
Ana Amat, natural wine producer and winemaker of Zillamina at Bodegas Pinoso, in her cellar in Pinoso, Alicante, Spain
Alicante 3 min read
Zillamina
Bodegas Pinoso, a pioneering organic cooperative founded in 1932, crafts the Zillamina range from Monastrell vines in the sun-soaked hills of Alicante.
Jean-Francois Mereau - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
France 2 min read
Jean-Francois Mereau
A fourth-generation Touraine vigneron working the Cher valley in chalk, flint, and clay, ageing organic Loire wines in oak, concrete egg, and amphora.