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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Bonavita — natural wine producer
Faro 2 min read
Bonavita
From 2.5 hectares of clay and limestone above the Strait of Messina, Giovanni Scarfone makes some of the most sought-after wine in Sicily's tiny Faro DOC.
Quinta da Palmirinha - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Portugal 3 min read
Quinta da Palmirinha
Retired history teacher Fernando Paiva tends just three biodynamic hectares in the Sousa Valley, making some of Portugal's most singular Vinho Verde using a signature technique of dried chestnut flowers in place of sulfur.
Agricola Marino — natural wine producer
Italy 3 min read
Agricola Marino
A one-man farm in Sicily's far southeast where Salvatore Marino works a single hectare entirely by hand, guided by the lunar calendar and five generations of family tradition.
Benoit Joussot-Dubien of Les Terres Dubien at a traditional wooden wine press in the northern Medoc
Bordeaux 2 min read
Les Terres Dubien
Benoit Joussot-Dubien founded Les Terres Dubien in 2020 with just 3 hectares across three villages in the northern Medoc, farming organically and biodynamically with manual harvests and making unfined, unfiltered Bordeaux blends with minimal sulfur.
Ciro Picariello, winemaker of the eponymous Fiano di Avellino estate in Campania
Campania 2 min read
Ciro Picariello
From high volcanic hills around Summonte, Ciro Picariello bottles some of Campania's most precise, ageworthy Fiano di Avellino with nothing but steel, lees and time.
Andreas Ziniel, natural wine producer, on his tractor among the vines in Burgenland, Austria
Austria 2 min read
Andreas Ziniel
Trained across South Africa, Germany and Switzerland, 'Zini' farms 15 hectares near the Zicksee, making fresh, low-intervention reds and whites with short macerations.
Domaine Cotze - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
France 2 min read
Domaine Cotze
Wilfried Garcia's high-altitude project in the Cerdagne Pyrenees, planting vines at around 1,300 meters while bottling Roussillon fruit under his Transhumancia label.
Nicola Oteri of Nuzzella harvesting white grapes in his Etna vineyard
Carricante 2 min read
Nuzzella
Nicola Oteri founded Nuzzella in 2014 on the northeast slope of Etna in Piedimonte Etneo, making organically farmed Nerello Mascalese and Carricante across 4 hectares at 500 meters elevation.
Christian Tschida, natural wine producer, standing in his vineyard in Austria's Burgenland
Austria 2 min read
Christian Tschida
An Austrian natural-wine star, Christian Tschida makes zero-sulfur, unmanipulated wines by Lake Neusiedl and calls himself a tuner, not a winemaker.
Jean-Pierre Robinot of L'Ange Vin standing in his Loire Valley vineyard
France 2 min read
Jean-Pierre Robinot
A former Paris natural-wine bar owner turned Loire vigneron, fermenting sulfur-free Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis in limestone caves beneath his vines.
Antoni Sanchez-Ortiz meditating on a barrel in his cellar in Priorat
Priorat 2 min read
Toni Sanchez
Antoni Sanchez-Ortiz is a Priorat native with a chemistry PhD who makes zero-zero natural wine from pre-phylloxera Garnatxa vines on licorella slate, fermenting wild and aging 18 months in old barrels.
Andrea Scovero, natural wine producer, smiling with a glass of red wine in his vineyard in Piedmont, Italy
Barbera 2 min read
Andrea Scovero
A quiet fourth-generation artisan in the Asti hills, Andrea Scovero farms six steep hectares organically, making Barbera with no added sulfites and increasingly working in amphora.