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.
Martin Texier
Son of northern Rhône legend Éric Texier, Martin set up on his own in 2014 with five hectares around Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, working a mosaic of clay, limestone, gneiss, schist, and granite soils to make pure, zero-sulfur wines from Syrah, Cinsault, Grenache, and Roussanne.
Tardieu-Jambon
Tardieu-Jambon is a friendship in a bottle: Beaujolais legend Philippe Jambon and organic Rhone vigneron Denis Tardieu, making simple, honest, sulfur-free wine from sun-baked southern French terroir.
Andrea Calek
A Czech émigré turned Ardèche natural-wine pioneer, Andrea Calek farms five chemical-free hectares and bottles Syrah, Grenache and Merlot with no added sulfites, fining or filtration.
Anders Frederik Steen
A Noma-trained Dane turned Ardèche vigneron names each one-time-only cuvee after poetry and song, adding nothing and taking nothing away from the grapes.
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.
Les Frères Soulier
Brothers Charles and Guillaume Soulier reclaimed four hectares of their father's vines in 2015 in the Gard, southern Rhone, farming by permaculture principles with horses and animals and making sulfur-free, unfiltered wines from Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault.