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.
L'Archetipo
Francesco Valentino Dibenedetto and his family farm 30 hectares in Castellaneta, Puglia using synergistic agriculture inspired by Fukuoka and Steiner, producing unfiltered, zero-sulfur wines from rare indigenous Apulian varieties.
Plantamura
Mariangela Plantamura continues her family's century-long tradition of growing Primitivo in Gioia del Colle, making tiny-production organic wines from 3.5 hectares of old vines behind the family home.
Cristiano Guttarolo
On the Murge plateau above Gioia del Colle, Cristiano Guttarolo coaxes a rare lightness and minerality from Primitivo, fermenting some of it in beeswax-sealed Umbrian amphorae.
Natalino del Prete
Certified organic since 1994, Natalino del Prete farms 10 hectares of Primitivo, Negroamaro, and Malvasia Nera in San Donaci without irrigation, without chemicals, and without sulfur — making honest, rustic Salento wines built for the table.
Pietraventosa
Marianna and Raffaele Annio founded Pietraventosa in 2005 in Gioia del Colle, Puglia, making ICEA-certified organic Primitivo from elevated limestone vineyards at 380 metres -- lean, mineral, and unlike any Primitivo from the flatlands.
La Cattiva
A collective of seven friends from Puglia who revived a dairy farm in Sammichele di Bari and began making spontaneously fermented, zero-sulfur wines from Primitivo and Trebbiano in 2019.