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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Francesc and Joan Ferré of Celler Frisach, natural wine producer in Terra Alta, Catalonia, Spain, standing among old vines in Corbera d'Ebre
Garnatxa 2 min read
Celler Frisach
Two brothers in Terra Alta who kept their well-tended grapes after a buyer walked away, and turned 200 years of family farming into vivid, low-intervention Garnatxa.
Agricola La Portera — natural wine producer
Aragon 2 min read
Agricola La Portera
Three veteran Spanish winemakers chase old-vine Bobal and Garnacha across Valencia and Aragon, bottling tiny parcels under the Tardano and La Pinada labels.
Ton Mata of Recaredo presenting wines at a tasting, Penedes, Spain
Penedes 3 min read
Recaredo & Celler Credo
Founded in 1924 in Sant Sadurni d'Anoia, Recaredo is one of the Penedes' greatest sparkling wine dynasties -- now in its third generation under Ton Mata, biodynamically certified since 2010, and one of the co-founders of the Corpinnat designation in 2019. Celler Credo is its sister still wine project.
Artesano Vintners — natural wine producer
Catalonia 2 min read
Artesano Vintners
Two New Zealand winemakers set up in Catalonia in 2016 to make tiny-batch, zero-added-sulfite wines from indigenous grapes like Xarel-lo and Parellada.
AT Roca - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Catalonia 2 min read
AT Roca
A third-generation sparkling-wine name walked away from Cava to join Classic Penedes, making zero-dosage traditional-method bottles from organic, hand-picked Macabeu and Xarel-lo.
Celler de les Aus - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Alella 2 min read
Celler de les Aus
The natural-wine, zero-sulfite arm of Alta Alella, named for the birds of the Serralada de Marina and built on pioneering no-sulfur cava.
Gulp Hablo — natural wine producer
Castilla-la mancha 2 min read
Gulp Hablo
Born from a market gap spotted by importer T. Edward Wines, this one-liter orange wine sold out in two months and turned skin contact into an everyday habit.
Álvaro González Marcos — natural wine producer
Catalonia 2 min read
Álvaro González Marcos
Working two hectares from a 400-year-old masia, this Penedès grower farms old Xarel-lo and Parellada biodynamically and bottles barely 8,000 gravity-handled bottles a year.
Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa, founders of Partida Creus, smiling together outdoors at the estate in Bonastre
Biodynamic 3 min read
Partida Creus
Former architects Massimo Marchiori and Antonella Gerosa left Turin for a remote village in Baix Penedes, where they rescue old vines of obscure native varieties and make some of Spain's most distinctive zero-zero natural wines.
Alicia Serres, natural wine producer, in her cellar in El Pinell de Brai, Terra Alta, Catalonia, Spain
Catalonia 2 min read
Alicia Serres
The next-generation Serres steps out from her father Laureano's shadow at Mendall, reviving her family's old Terra Alta parcels with native-yeast ferments and zero added sulfur.
Fredi Torres in his Catalonian vineyard holding a cluster of grapes
Grenache 2 min read
Fredi Torres
A Galician-Swiss DJ turned winemaker, Fredi Torres farms schist terraces across four corners of Catalonia, working organically and with biodynamic principles to make bright, low-alcohol expressions of Priorat and beyond.
Bodega Frontio — natural wine producer
Arribes 2 min read
Bodega Frontio
A former Maersk Oil executive left Denmark to revive century-old Juan García vines on granite at Fermoselle, in Spain's remote DO Arribes on the Portuguese border.