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.
Vigneti Vallorani
Fifth-generation family estate in southern Le Marche farming 8 certified-organic hectares of Sangiovese, Montepulciano, and Pecorino near the Adriatic coast since 1905.
Colline de l'Hirondelle
A Franco-American couple makes organic Corbieres wines on a bird-refuge hillside in the Aude, including a Grenache-Mourvedre bottled with no added sulfites.
Bodega Frontio
A former Maersk Oil executive left Denmark to revive century-old Juan García vines on granite at Fermoselle, in Spain's remote DO Arribes on the Portuguese border.
Vini Viti Vinci
Paris wine-bar veteran who moved to northern Burgundy to ferment overlooked appellations with zero inputs and unflinching natural conviction.
Las Jaras
Winemaker Joel Burt and actor-director Eric Wareheim founded Las Jaras in 2017, sourcing from organic and sustainably farmed old-vine sites across Mendocino, Sonoma and Oregon to produce low-intervention California wines that are food-friendly, lower-alcohol and genuinely fun.
Cascina degli Ulivi
The Piedmont farm where the late Stefano Bellotti turned a single hectare into one of Italy's defining biodynamic estates, now carried on by his daughter Ilaria.
Margins
Megan Bell founded Margins in 2016 to spotlight California's overlooked grape varieties and marginal wine regions, building one of the state's most distinctive low-intervention portfolios before closing in 2026.
Heinrich
From a single hectare in 1990 to roughly 90 spread across Lake Neusiedl, Gernot and Heike Heinrich turned Burgenland into proof that Austrian reds and Demeter farming belong together.
Bodegas Cueva
From an 18th-century cellar in Utiel-Requena, Mariano Taberner makes organic, minimally handled wines, including ancestral-method sparklers from native Tardana and Bobal.
Sarnin-Berrux
Jean-Pascal Sarnin and Jean-Marie Berrux launched their natural Burgundy négociant in Saint-Romain in 2007, sourcing organic grapes across Chablis, Meursault, Volnay, and beyond to craft additive-free wines of genuine appellation character.
Julie Karsten
A psychologist turned vigneronne who inherited a Southern Rhone estate near the Pont du Gard and makes pure, organic, low-sulfur Cotes du Rhone.
Tenuta il Nespolo
Luca Amerio farms old-vine Barbera and Moscato in Moasca, southern Asti, applying organic principles and a light touch in the cellar to produce vibrant, appellation-defying blends.