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.
La Regina del Quartuccio
Remo Bartolomei launched La Regina del Quartuccio in 2020, naming the project after his mother's nickname, and produces vivid orange and red wines from ancient volcanic vines on the southern slopes of Lake Bolsena in northern Lazio.
Inconnu
Self-taught winemaker Laura Brennan Bissell, who found natural wine in Barcelona, makes elegant, low-intervention California bottlings under the name Inconnu, the unknown.
Woody's
Third-generation Sonoma farmer Woody Hambrecht applies his family's organic legacy to dealcoholized sparkling wines built for celebration.
Dan and Jack
A Sonoma friendship in a bottle: Marioni and Fres.Co's Jack Sporer team up to turn pressed Primitivo skins into a juicy, low-alcohol piquette made with native yeasts and nothing added.
Vittorio Bera e Figli
An estate in Canelli tracing back to 1785, now farmed organically by siblings Alessandra and Gianluigi Bera, champions of Moscato d'Asti made without compromise.
Fabrice Chaillou
A new-wave Anjou vigneron working barely two hectares, Fabrice Chaillou devotes almost everything to Chenin Blanc, farmed and vinified as naturally as possible.
Carmarans
A former Paris natural-wine bar owner who went home to the Aveyron to farm steep schist slopes organically, reviving the local Fer Servadou grape with near-zero sulfur.
La Staffa
Riccardo Baldi farms 12 hectares of ancient calcium-carbonate-rich hillsides in Staffolo, Marche, using biodynamic methods and concrete-tank ageing to craft Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi of rare salty minerality and precision.
Chateau le Bergey
A former pro ice-hockey player turned winemaker, Damien Laurent farms one of Bordeaux's rare biodynamic estates, with Le Bergey as its honest entry red.
Neon Eon
Tyler Thrussell makes boldly labelled, zero-input natural wines from organic and biodynamic Okanagan grapes out of Summerland, British Columbia, bottling every cuvee unfined, unfiltered, and free of added sulfur since his first vintage in 2018.
Domaine Lampyres
François-Xavier Dauré named his Roussillon estate after the fireflies he resembled while pruning by headlamp before dawn, and now makes additive-free wines from organic and biodynamic vines.
Forteto della Luja
In Italy's smallest DOC, the Scaglione family farm a WWF nature oasis in Loazzolo, reviving raisined Moscato passito alongside biodynamic Piedmontese reds.