Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Four friends founded Sassocorno in 2017 in Corno di Rosazzo, Friuli, choosing the land out of love rather than inheritance to grow native varieties organically and make spontaneously fermented wines that taste of eastern Friuli's mineral seabed soils.

A leading natural vigneron of the Loire's Cheverny, Herve Villemade farms organically and ferments with native yeasts across concrete, foudre, barrique and amphora.

Born from importer Jenny Lefcourt's network of Loire growers, Gaspard proves that honest, native-yeast natural wine can sit at an everyday price.

Lisanne van Son, a Dutch sommelier turned vigneron, makes joyful, low-intervention wines from her 4-hectare estate in the Bugey, where she and partner Edouard farm organically and let the wines find their own way.

A partnership between third-generation winemaker Chenoa Ashton-Lewis and cinematographer Will Basanta, born from a family vineyard scarred by the 2017 Nuns Fire and named partly for the Swahili word for thank you.

Gaia Felix revives the ancient alberata tradition of vines climbing trees, farming Asprinio biodynamically on volcanic soils north of Caserta in Campania.

Four creative-arts friends in Los Angeles started General Psychotic Activity during the pandemic, making zero-sulfur wines from organic and biodynamic California fruit.

A jazz musician turned vigneron, Francois Blanchard farms a single old-vine parcel of clay and silex in the Touraine and makes intuitive, low-intervention wines that he describes in the language of music.

A fourth-generation Terra Alta family that left bulk wine behind in 1995, blending viticultural tradition with university training in sun-baked Vilalba dels Arcs.

Graziano Pra's certified-organic Soave estate in Monteforte d'Alpone, making mineral, age-worthy Garganega-based whites with indigenous yeasts and no new oak since 1983.

A southern Beaujolais estate running almost without interruption since 1512, where the Dupeuble family farms old Gamay vines into vibrant, carbonic-fermented wines of striking clarity.

Pierre Cotton reclaimed a single hectare of rare 'corne verte' from his family to launch a cult Beaujolais domaine now run with agronomist Marine Bonnet.