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.
Centopassi
Sicily's Libera Terra cooperative turns vineyards confiscated from Cosa Nostra into organic wines that fund a future free of the mafia.
Swick Wines
Fifth-generation Oregonian Joe Swick spent a decade making harvests across three continents before returning home to craft energetic, low-intervention wines from organic Pacific Northwest vineyards. Raw, honest, and built for drinking.
Prisinzano
New York chef Frank Prisinzano bought an 822-year-old palazzo in Scala and its terraced land, making organic Amalfi Coast wine with the help of Bruno De Conciliis.
Benjamin Taillandier
After apprenticing with Jean-Baptiste Senat, Benjamin Taillandier farms Caunes-Minervois biodynamically to make lighter, fresher Minervois built for thirst.
La Cattiva
A collective of seven friends from Puglia who revived a dairy farm in Sammichele di Bari and began making spontaneously fermented, zero-sulfur wines from Primitivo and Trebbiano in 2019.
Les Bories Jefferies
British-born Jo Jefferies farms just 4 hectares of volcanic basalt soil around the village of Caux in the Hérault, making intensely mineral natural wines that have earned him a reputation as one of Languedoc's most compelling producers.
Liten Buffel
Zack Klug and Patrick Vaughn grow and vinify Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Riesling on 4.5 acres of New York's Niagara Escarpment with foot-crushing, old barrels, and a philosophy that puts spontaneity ahead of safety nets.
Delinquente Wine Co.
Con-Greg Grigoriou is rewriting the Riverland's reputation with bright, smashable wines from heat-loving Southern Italian grapes.
Laurent
Laurent Cazottes transforms rare heirloom grapes and orchard fruits from his biodynamic farm in the Tarn into vivid natural wines, eaux-de-vie, and liqueurs rooted in 12 generations of family history.
Aia dei Colombi
A Pascale-family estate in the Sannio hills bottles only its own grapes, championing Falanghina, Fiano, Aglianico, and the near-forgotten Barbera del Sannio.
Famille Brunier
Six generations of Bruniers have farmed the windswept La Crau plateau, where a deep mantle of rounded galets stones gives Vieux Télégraphe its benchmark Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Domaine Le Briseau
A pioneering Coteaux-du-Loir estate founded in 2002 by Christian Chaussard and Nathalie Gaubicher, whose zero-added-anything Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis helped shape Loire natural wine.