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.

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La Regina del Quartuccio - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Italy 2 min read
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.
Laura Brennan Bissell, winemaker and founder of Inconnu, in the vineyard
California 2 min read
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 Hambrecht, natural wine producer behind Woody's, in Dry Creek Valley, California
California 2 min read
Woody's
Third-generation Sonoma farmer Woody Hambrecht applies his family's organic legacy to dealcoholized sparkling wines built for celebration.
Vittorio Bera e Figli - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Asti 3 min read
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 - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Chenin blanc 1 min read
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.
Nicolas Carmarans, natural wine producer, in his vineyard in Aveyron, France
Aveyron 2 min read
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.
Riccardo Baldi of La Staffa in his Marche vineyards
Biodynamic 3 min read
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.
Gérard Laurent, natural wine producer of Château le Bergey, in his biodynamic vineyard in Saint-Loubès, Bordeaux, France
Biodynamic 2 min read
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 - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
British columbia 2 min read
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.
François-Xavier Dauré bottling wine in his cellar at Domaine Lampyres, Roussillon
France 2 min read
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.
Giovanni Scaglione, natural wine producer of Forteto della Luja, nosing a glass of Moscato in his barrel cellar in Loazzolo, Piedmont, Italy
Italy 2 min read
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.
Jacques Fèvrier - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
France 1 min read
Jacques Fèvrier
A former sommelier who, inspired by time spent with Australia's natural winemakers, returned to the western Loire to farm six organic hectares around Oudon.