Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Aris Blancardi, a trained veterinarian, converted his family's Ligurian flower farm into 7 biodynamic hectares near Bordighera, producing Pigato, Vermentino, and Rossese with minimal intervention.

A pioneer of skin-contact wine in Friuli's Collio, Franco Terpin farms marl-and-sandstone hills straddling the Italian-Slovenian border and macerates his whites for weeks to make textured, age-worthy orange wines.

First-generation California winemaker Martha Stoumen farms organic and dry-farmed sites across Mendocino and Contra Costa, making patient, additive-free wines from Italian varieties and California classics that ask a simple question: what does this state actually taste like?

In the granite-soiled hills of Dambach-la-Ville, a fifth-generation Alsace vigneron turned a classic family domaine toward organic farming and native-yeast natural wine.

From neglected plots around Perugia, Carlo Tabarrini revived Umbrian Trebbiano, Grechetto and Sangiovese into direct, biodynamic wines made exactly as his grandfather's were.

A glou-glou Mediterranean collaboration from Banyuls-sur-Mer, making affordable, spontaneous, zero-sulfur wines named in Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan.

A 15th-generation grower in a family farming since 1634, Sébastien David makes biodynamic, sulfur-free Cabernet Franc in clay and amphorae in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil.

Three friends making low-sulfite wines from historic and high-desert vineyards across inland Southern California, out of a Redlands winery and wine bar.

Eighth-generation Corbières estate inside a Mediterranean nature park, certified organic since 2010 and farmed biodynamically with a grazing flock of sheep.

A former Loire mushroom trader who settled in Banyuls in 2000, Bruno Duchêne works four hectares of schist terraces by hand and bottles without added sulfur.

A family estate in the hamlet of Pouilly at the heart of the Pouilly-Fuisse appellation, now run by the third generation across the Maconnais and Beaujolais.

A former Milan investment banker who returned home to Campania in 2003 to revive her family's Sannio estate, farming organically and bottling indigenous Falanghina, Greco, Fiano and Aglianico.