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.
Artesano Vintners
Two New Zealand winemakers set up in Catalonia in 2016 to make tiny-batch, zero-added-sulfite wines from indigenous grapes like Xarel-lo and Parellada.
Duckman
Maria Pato, youngest of Bairrada's famous Pato wine family, hides behind a duck mask and surreal labels to make irreverent, indigenous, low-intervention wines.
Abbia Nova
Two cousins from farming families are reviving Cesanese and forgotten native grapes on Lazio hills that once hosted Roman emperors and a wandering medieval saint.
Col Tamarie
On the highest hill of Prosecco DOC, Alberto and Marta make a single biodynamic col fondo from a six-grape field blend, refermented in bottle with nothing added.
Château de Grand Pré
In Fleurie, Romain Zordan farms organic cru Beaujolais and makes whole-bunch Gamay with native ferments and barely any sulphur.
Caparra & Siciliani
A historic Calabrian estate born in 1963 from two farming families, devoted almost entirely to native Gaglioppo in the Cirò appellation along the Ionian coast.
Proxies
Proxies, from Toronto's Acid League, are non-alcoholic wine alternatives built from grape juices, teas, spices, and ferments--crafted by winemaker Devin Campbell to honor wine's role at the table.
Natalino del Prete
Certified organic since 1994, Natalino del Prete farms 10 hectares of Primitivo, Negroamaro, and Malvasia Nera in San Donaci without irrigation, without chemicals, and without sulfur — making honest, rustic Salento wines built for the table.
Romain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere
Romain Petiteau leads the 21-hectare Domaine de la Tourlaudiere in Muscadet, converting a 17th-century family estate to organic viticulture and exploring low-intervention winemaking with Melon de Bourgogne.
Fattoria Calcabrina
A father-and-son goat farm turned biodynamic estate in the hills of Montefalco, where Diego and Angelo Calcabrina make tiny lots of zero-added-sulfite wine alongside their cheeses.
Gut Oggau
An Austrian estate where every cuvee is a fictional family member with its own face and personality, made from biodynamic Burgenland vineyards around a restored 17th-century manor.
De Fermo
Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.