Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Benoit and Celine Blet founded Les Terres Blanches in 2004 in Oiron at the gates of Anjou, farming 10 biodynamic hectares of schist and limestone soils with Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, and Gamay de Bouze, replanting half the estate from their own massale selections.

Claude and Etienne Courtois farm over 40 grape varieties on flinty Sologne soils, making zero-input natural wines that have defined the Loire's radical edge since Claude began organic farming in the 1970s.

Founded in 1989 in Sardinia's Gallura zone, Piero Mancini has become a benchmark producer of Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, farming 120 hectares of organic vineyards across four distinct parcels.

Roberto Maestri founded Quarticello in 2001 in Montecchio Emilia to revive traditional Emilian pétillant naturel, growing only native varieties on the foothills of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines with biodynamic care.

Two former television workers, Piero Riccardi and Lorella Reale, left the screen to save Lazio's indigenous Cesanese, farming biodynamically on volcanic and sandstone soils near Rome.

Founded by Marco Sferlazzo in 2005, this high-altitude Camporeale estate champions old-vine alberello Catarratto and rare Perricone, farmed biodynamically.

Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.

Wolfgang Weber and Chad Westbrook Hinds founded En Cavale in 2017 to re-examine classic West Coast grapes like Sauvignon Blanc and Zinfandel through a natural, affordable lens.

Franz and Christine Strohmeier have farmed their steep West Styrian slopes without compromise since 1997, crafting zero-additive wines from Blauer Wildbacher and native varieties at the edge of the Alps.

A San Luis Obispo native uses ocean-cooled coastal sites to craft tiny lots of wild-fermented Pinot Noir and Syrah.

Twelve kilometers from Slovenia, the Bastiani family farms 18 organic hectares in Collio, where the Aransat orange wine bridges tradition and modernity.

German-born Axel Prufer left East Germany for the Languedoc in 2003 and built a domaine of roughly 15 hectares above Beziers, farming granitic soils without systemic sprays and making zero-sulfur wines from Cinsault, Carignan, and Grenache with an easy, glouglou character all his own.