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.
Judith Beck
A leading Austrian biodynamic vigneronne in Gols, crafting energetic, low-sulfur reds and skin-contact whites from indigenous Burgenland varieties.
Jordi Llorens
An eighth-generation Catalan farmer and trained geologist who makes biodynamic, zero-additive wines from native Parellada and Macabeu, fermented in earthenware jars buried in his cellar.
Sequerciani
Swiss filmmaker Ruedi Gerber rescued eight neglected hectares in Maremma in 1992, growing them into a Demeter-certified estate devoted to near-extinct Tuscan varieties and zero-sulfur winemaking.
Tamellini
Brothers Gaetano and Pio Francesco Tamellini make some of Italy's most compelling Soave from 100% Garganega on their family estate in Costeggiola -- proof that a single grape, farmed with care, can say everything.
Baptiste Ramboz
An Arbois native who trained from Bordeaux to Sonoma before returning to the Jura, Ramboz farms a tiny holding of Savagnin, Chardonnay and Trousseau.
Bodegas Gratias
Siblings Ana and Iván turned a 2007 garage experiment into a mission to rescue Manchuela's nearly forgotten grapes, fermenting in tinajas, demijohns and old barrels.
Martin Pohl Wines
Czech-born winemaker Martin Pohl has farmed a remote 185-acre Lake County mountain property biodynamically since 2007, making Demeter-certified, sulfite-free natural wines at elevation from volcanic soils with a philosophy rooted in healing agriculture.
Jeremy Quastana
A history student turned Loire vigneron, trained by Marcel Lapierre and Olivier Lemasson, who makes vivid, low-sulfur Gamay, Cot and Pineau d'Aunis from two hectares near Cheverny.
Giuseppe Quintarelli
Known as Bepi, the father of modern Amarone dried his grapes by three different methods and aged the wines a decade in Slavonian oak, setting Valpolicella's gold standard.
Casa Belfi
A biodynamic Prosecco pioneer in the Treviso plains, Demeter-certified, best known for its cloudy, bottle-fermented Colfondo made from 100% Glera with no disgorgement.
Tenuta Baroni Campanino
High in the hills of Assisi, within the protected wilderness of Monte Subasio park, Tenuta Baroni Campanino farms biodynamic Sangiovese and ancient Umbrian varieties at altitudes that push Italian viticulture to its limits.
Fiky Fiky
A playful Los Angeles natural wine project from friends Ty Steidle and Brock Larson, making wild-fermented California wines from organic and regenerative vineyards.