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.
Mas del Périé
Fabien Jouves farms 20 biodynamic hectares on the limestone heights of Cahors, producing Malbec-driven natural wines of remarkable freshness and precision that have made him one of southwest France's most exciting young voices.
Abraam's Vineyards
Grandsons revived their grandfather's mountain plots at nearly 1,000 meters in the Greek Macedonian highlands, making amphora-aged Malagousia where winters drop to minus twenty.
Domaine du Temps
On a former 18th-century priory north of Carcassonne, Lauranne Plegat and Jeremy Gobert farm thirteen biodynamic hectares ringed by sixty hectares of protective garrigue.
Bojo do Luar
Ground chestnut flowers stand in for sulfur in these granite-grown Vinho Verde wines, fermented in century-old amphorae the old monastic way.
Where's Linus?
Chris Christensen, Bodkin Wines founder and Wine Enthusiast 40 Under 40 honoree, makes playful skin-contact California wines that champion diversity in the wine industry.
Weingut Benzinger
A Kirchheim family that pioneered organic farming in the northern Pfalz in 1985, fermenting spontaneously and bottling unfined, unfiltered Riesling and Pinot.
Beaver Creek Vineyards
Czech-born Martin Pohl makes CCOF-organic and Demeter-certified wines below Mount Saint Helena, native-fermented with zero added sulfites and no filtration.
Marto
Trained at Gut Oggau and Matassa, Martin Worner came home to Flonheim and turned his family's old sandstone vines into one of Germany's most copied natural wine projects.
Domaine Roland Schmitt
Bergbieten's only winemaking family, the Schmitts farm the Altenberg Grand Cru biodynamically, with Julien leading the estate his mother saved after tragedy.
Gearhead Wines
Former fisherman and Acme baker Craig West makes tiny, foot-tread, zero-sulfur California lots after one evening stomping grapes changed his life.
Pojer e Sandri
Founded in 1975 in the alpine village of Faedo, Trentino, Pojer e Sandri pioneered sulfur-free winemaking and the revival of rare mountain varieties, building 35 hectares and one of Italy's most celebrated estates.
Álvaro González Marcos
Working two hectares from a 400-year-old masia, this Penedès grower farms old Xarel-lo and Parellada biodynamically and bottles barely 8,000 gravity-handled bottles a year.