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.
La Grange 476
Dimitri Vetois and Marion Valverde work four hectares of old Jura vines by horse in Menétru-le-Vignoble, making biodynamic wines from Savagnin, Chardonnay, Poulsard, and Pinot Noir that speak clearly of limestone and marl.
Methode Sauvage
Chad Hinds launched Methode Sauvage in 2013 in Berkeley, then relocated to the alpine wilderness of Siskiyou County near Mount Shasta to grow alpine varieties by permaculture principles in one of California's most remote natural wine projects.
O2Y
A three-way collaboration between Olivier Guala, Yves Roy, and Yoshinori Kuroda in Poligny, Jura, making zero-sulfur, additive-free natural wines since 2020 from organically farmed plots between Arbois and Poligny.
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.