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 Des Coteaux du Val
Jean-Francois Ryon's tiny Jura estate in Vernantois, organic since 2003, working 2.68 hectares of Jurassic blue marl with no additives and little or no sulfur.
Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme
Loire Valley vigneron Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme trained under Thierry Puzelat before establishing his own 9-hectare domaine in Touraine, making energetic natural wines from indigenous and endangered grape varieties.
Celler Frisach
Two brothers in Terra Alta who kept their well-tended grapes after a buyer walked away, and turned 200 years of family farming into vivid, low-intervention Garnatxa.
Domaine Charnay
After a decade in construction, Thibault Charnay returned home to farm 12 organic hectares of Gamay on the pierres dorees around Anse in southern Beaujolais.
Agricola La Portera
Three veteran Spanish winemakers chase old-vine Bobal and Garnacha across Valencia and Aragon, bottling tiny parcels under the Tardano and La Pinada labels.
Colle Stefano
Fabio Marchionni's organic family estate at 420 meters in Matelica is a cult reference for crisp, mineral, pine-scented Verdicchio di Matelica.
Agricola Virà
Inside a regional natural park between Cefalu and Gratteri, this Sicilian farm grows vines and olive trees side by side, fermenting Catarratto on its skins with nothing added.
Mas de Daumas
Founded in 1972 by Aimé and Véronique Guibert near Aniane, Mas de Daumas Gassac built its legend on red glacial soils, a Bordeaux-trained palate, and wild-fermented blends of over 50 grape varieties that GaultMillau called the 'Lafite Rothschild of the Languedoc.'
Gueli
Near Agrigento in southern Sicily, the Gueli family farms organic Nero d'Avola on chalky and limestone soils within sight of the Valley of the Temples.
Kumusha
A celebrated Zimbabwean sommelier turned wine brand owner, making minimal-intervention South African wines that carry a sense of place and broaden who the industry represents.
Stirm Wine Co.
Ryan Stirm farms dry and organic vineyards in California's Pajaro Valley, making white-wine-forward natural wines that champion Riesling, historic Cabernet Pfeffer, and forgotten coastal varieties with a farmer's patience and a surfer's ease.
Grape Republic
In Yamagata, Grape Republic makes zero-zero natural wine in one of Japan's largest amphora cellars, reviving neglected farmland with local grapes.