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.
Celler de les Aus
The natural-wine, zero-sulfite arm of Alta Alella, named for the birds of the Serralada de Marina and built on pioneering no-sulfur cava.
Corentin Houillon
A scion of the Jura's famed Houillon family, Corentin makes biodynamic, native-yeast Savoie wines from 5 mountain hectares he found after searching twelve regions.
Clos Fantine
Three Andrieu siblings farm 23 schist hectares high in Faugères, fermenting Carignan and Grenache in concrete with zero added sulfur in honor of their late father.
Everything is Okay
From a shared warehouse in Richmond, California, Booker Riley turns organically farmed fruit into zero-zero wines built on long-term relationships with the farmers who grow it.
Tami'
Tami' is Arianna Occhipinti's everyday label -- biodynamic Sicilian wines made for the table, from the same uncompromising mind that reshaped how the world thinks about Vittoria.
Conduit
A small family winery on a granite ridge in El Dorado County making native-ferment natural wines from a 6-acre estate vineyard at 2,700 feet.
Jumbo Time Wines
A Los Angeles natural wine project from two self-taught friends who turned playful curiosity into orange wines, chilled reds, and serious Pinot Noir.
Faccia di Vino
A clean, circular-farming Lambrusco from Modena, made by fourth-generation grower Alberto Pezzuoli on family land worked since 1932 for US importer Amy Atwood.
Autour de l'Anne
A former Radiohead roadie quit corporate life after a car crash and now makes what she calls Loiredoc wines: Languedoc fruit raised in the Loire.
Jérôme Lambert
A self-taught Anjou paysan working a handful of hectares of Chenin and animals in Rablay-sur-Layon, bottling sulfur-free Loire wines of striking purity.
J. Brix Wines
A San Diego County couple making tiny lots of native-yeast natural wine from grapes sourced all over California, guided by the motto 'only love.'
Domaine de Durban
A hilltop Beaumes-de-Venise estate run by brothers Henri and Philippe Leydier, makers of the appellation's most celebrated Muscat.