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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Face B - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
France 2 min read
Face B
In the limestone village of Calce, Lyon transplant Severin Barioz farms a few biodynamic hectares of Roussillon schist and marl into pure, saline natural wines.
Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa, founders of Partida Creus, smiling together outdoors at the estate in Bonastre
Biodynamic 3 min read
Partida Creus
Former architects Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa left Turin for a remote village in Baix Penedes, where they rescue old vines of obscure native varieties and make some of Spain's most distinctive zero-zero natural wines.
André & Michel Quenard — natural wine producer
France 2 min read
André & Michel Quenard
On the steep limestone scree of Chignin's Coteau de Torméry, the Quenards farm 22 terraced hectares of Jacquère, Bergeron, Mondeuse and Altesse, with Guillaume now at the helm.
Vincenzo Angileri standing among his old-vine Grillo in western Sicily
Italy 2 min read
Viteadovest
Three-generation Marsala family farming century-old alberello vines with zero inputs, producing powerful orange wines and layered reds from Sicily's far west.
Romain Chamiot - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
France 3 min read
Romain Chamiot
Third-generation vigneron Romain Chamiot tends seven hectares of Jacquere across 30 parcels in Savoie's Apremont appellation, crafting Alpine whites of crisp mineral precision.
Fangareggi - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Emilia-romagna 1 min read
Fangareggi
A family farm near Reggio Emilia where Matteo Fangareggi makes hand-harvested, native-yeast Lambrusco from 24 hectares his family has tended since the 1800s.
Alicia Serres, natural wine producer, in her cellar in El Pinell de Brai, Terra Alta, Catalonia, Spain
Catalonia 2 min read
Alicia Serres
The next-generation Serres steps out from her father Laureano's shadow at Mendall, reviving her family's old Terra Alta parcels with native-yeast ferments and zero added sulfur.
Scott Sampler leaning over a table with six bottles of his Scotty Boy and CCGP wines, wearing glasses and a printed t-shirt
Central coast 3 min read
Scotty Boy!
Former Hollywood director Scott Sampler makes zero-addition, zero-sulfur country wines in Buellton, California -- joyful, chuggy, and alive with the wild character of organically farmed Central Coast fruit.
Lidia Carbonetti of Rocco di Carpeneto working on a large wooden fermentation vessel in the cellar
Italy 3 min read
Rocco di Carpeneto
Former Milanese finance professionals Lidia Carbonetti and Paolo Baretta left the city in 2008 to farm ancient Piedmont vineyards in the Alto Monferrato hills, making zero-zero wines from native grapes.
Claire and Florent Bejon - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Cabernet franc 2 min read
Claire and Florent Bejon
Two former amateurs turned vignerons farm tiny Cabernet Franc and Chenin parcels on the banks of the Vienne, bottling Chinon-area wines with no additives at all.
Maricruz Antolin, natural wine producer and winemaker at Bodegas Krontiras, a biodynamic estate in Lujan de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Argentina 2 min read
Bodegas Krontiras
A Greek couple traded the Aegean for the Andes, building one of Argentina's first biodynamic estates and a Malbec made with zero added sulfur.
Fredi Torres in his Catalonian vineyard holding a cluster of grapes
Grenache 2 min read
Fredi Torres
A Galician-Swiss DJ turned winemaker, Fredi Torres farms schist terraces across four corners of Catalonia, working organically and with biodynamic principles to make bright, low-alcohol expressions of Priorat and beyond.