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.
Cruse Wine Co.
A molecular biology graduate turned sparkling-wine cult figure, Michael Cruse founded Cruse Wine Co. in Petaluma to make fresh, serious, distinctly Californian wine, including old-vine Valdiguie.
Glassmaker
Founded in 2015 by Jonathan Walton, Glassmaker makes spontaneously fermented, low-sulfur California wines from organically and biodynamically farmed vineyards.
Oeno
Amy Atwood's Oeno label sources from biodynamic Russian River Valley vineyards in Sonoma, fermenting with native yeasts in neutral oak to craft unfined, unfiltered California natural wines with zero additives.
Inconnu
Self-taught winemaker Laura Brennan Bissell, who found natural wine in Barcelona, makes elegant, low-intervention California bottlings under the name Inconnu, the unknown.
Fernweh
A Los Angeles natural wine project founded by Berlin-born Sebastian Lowa, sourcing biodynamic and organic fruit from Santa Barbara County for low-intervention bottlings.
Cormorant Cellars
After two decades making wine for others, Charlie Gilmore launched his own Sonoma label in 2018 to prove that simplicity, not machinery, makes the best wine.
Etteilla
Two best friends who trained under natural-wine pioneer Tony Coturri make hand-crafted zero-zero wines and ciders named for the metaphysics of the tarot.
Old Westminister
Winemaker Lisa Hinton and her siblings grow and vinify Maryland fruit with native yeasts and zero filtration at their Westminster farm, producing some of the East Coast's most compelling natural wines.
Everwild Wines
Two former film-industry burnouts traded the screen for the cellar, co-fermenting low-intervention Sierra Foothills wines designed to slow life down.
Old World Winery
Darek Trowbridge, great-grandson of Russian River Valley pioneer Giuseppe Martinelli, farms biodynamic century-old vines in Fulton and vinifies rare heritage grapes with foot-treading, native yeast, and zero filtration.
Hobo Wine Company
Kenny Likitprakong's Sonoma-based negociant project making honest, affordable wines from longstanding grower relationships across California.
Caleb Leisure
A former NYU fiction student turned California natural winemaker, Caleb Leisure ferments organic Sierra Foothills fruit in Georgian qvevri buried in his cellar floor.