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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Toshokan, natural wine producer, harvesting grapes in a California vineyard
California 2 min read
Toshokan
A Berkeley-based natural wine library curating single-vineyard bottles from across Northern California with minimal intervention and deep respect for place.
Clos Saron, natural wine producer, in the vineyard in California's Sierra Foothills
Pinot noir 2 min read
Clos Saron
A two-and-a-half acre Sierra Foothills outpost where Gideon Beinstock makes tiny lots of Pinot Noir and wild blends by feel, with a no-winemaking philosophy.
Son of Man, natural cider (sagardo) producer in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon
Cider 2 min read
Son Of Man
Jasper Smith and Ella McCallion founded Son of Man in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge to make Sagardo, Basque-style cider: wild-fermented, unfiltered, and bone dry, using heirloom apples from Hood River Valley farms.
Jason Charles, natural wine producer of Vinca Minor, smiling beside his basket press in his California cellar
California 2 min read
Vinca Minor
Berkeley winery founded in 2013 by Jason Charles, making small-batch natural wines from historic Northern California vineyards with a focus on old-vine Carignan and Mendocino Chardonnay.
Jolie Laide - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Producer profile 2 min read
Jolie Laide
Founded by Scott and Jenny Schultz in 2010, this Sonoma art-house winery sources offbeat varieties from Central Coast to Mendocino for whole-cluster, native-yeast bottlings with hand-illustrated labels.
Woody Hambrecht, natural wine producer behind Woody's, in Dry Creek Valley, California
California 2 min read
Woody's
Third-generation Sonoma farmer Woody Hambrecht applies his family's organic legacy to dealcoholized sparkling wines built for celebration.
Dirty & Rowdy co-founder and winemaker Hardy Wallace, black and white portrait
California 2 min read
Dirty & Rowdy
An ex-tech-sales blogger turned cult California winemaker who made Mourvedre the standard-bearer of the natural wine movement.
La Clarine Farm - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
California 2 min read
La Clarine Farm
Hank Beckmeyer and Caroline Hoel farm ten organic acres at 2,600 feet in California's Sierra Foothills, making small-batch natural wines guided by the do-nothing philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka.
Wavy Wines - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
California 2 min read
Wavy Wines
Sparked by a birthday spent tasting natural wine around the world, two Angelenos built a brand around piquette and breezy summer bottlings made to be drunk young.
Andrew Jones, natural wine producer of So Far Out, holding grapes in his vineyard in Paso Robles, California
California 2 min read
So Far Out
Andrew Jones of Field Recordings teamed with an organic Central Coast grower and an LA wine veteran to make easygoing, sustainable California wine that does not cost the earth.
Dieter Cronje winemaker of Riding Monkey inside a fermentation tank at Presqu'ile Winery in California
Producer profile 3 min read
Riding Monkey + Baire Wines
Riding Monkey + Baire Wines represents the crossover between Dieter Cronje's California natural wine project and Baire Wines, a Los Angeles-based importer founded by Basti and Claire, bringing Riding Monkey into their curated portfolio of organic and biodynamic European and California wines.
AmByth Estate — natural wine producer
California 2 min read
AmByth Estate
On a dry-farmed Templeton ridge, a Welsh shepherd's son foot-stomps amphora-aged wines with native yeast and zero added sulfur, the first Demeter-certified estate in Paso Robles.