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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End of Nowhere - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Natural wine 2 min read
End of Nowhere
Amador County's only homegrown natural winery, where a former New York sommelier turned farmer bottles native-yeast, no-additive wines from the Sierra Foothills.
Tahnee Shields of Oest Wines in her Richmond, California cellar
California 2 min read
Oest
Tahnee Shields makes alive, terroir-driven natural wines in Richmond, California, sourcing Gamay, Cabernet Franc, Syrah, and other varieties from Sierra Foothills growers she trusts to farm with integrity.
The Good Boy Wine team standing in a Central Coast vineyard at dusk
California 2 min read
Good Boy Wine
A French-inspired Los Angeles natural wine project pairing Central Coast organic fruit with low-intervention winemaking and an easygoing, joyful spirit.
Herrmann York - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
California 2 min read
Herrmann York
Three friends making low-sulfite wines from historic and high-desert vineyards across inland Southern California, out of a Redlands winery and wine bar.
Steve Matthiasson standing by farm equipment at dusk at his Napa Valley property
California 2 min read
Tendu
Steve and Jill Matthiasson launched Tendu to prove a point: that honest, hand-farmed natural wine from Italian grapes grown in California's Sacramento Valley could be delicious, generous, and cost less than $20 in a one-liter bottle.
Aaron Bryan and Amy of Conduit in their El Dorado County vineyard
California 2 min read
Conduit
A small family winery on a granite ridge in El Dorado County making native-ferment natural wines from a 6-acre estate vineyard at 2,700 feet.
Nate Ready, co-owner and winemaker of Hiyu Wine Farm in Hood River, Oregon
Oregon 2 min read
Hiyu Wine Farm
A polyculture farm near Mount Hood where Nate Ready and China Tresemer grow over 100 grape varieties and raise wild, field-blend wines with almost no intervention.
Megan Bell, founder and winemaker of Margins, in her Santa Cruz tasting room
California 3 min read
Margins
Megan Bell founded Margins in 2016 to spotlight California's overlooked grape varieties and marginal wine regions, building one of the state's most distinctive low-intervention portfolios before closing in 2026.
Fiky Fiky - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
California 1 min read
Fiky Fiky
A playful Los Angeles natural wine project from friends Ty Steidle and Brock Larson, making wild-fermented California wines from organic and regenerative vineyards.
Beno Stewart and Monica Varriale of Catch & Release Wines in the vineyard
Natural wine 1 min read
Catch & Release
A Sonoma partnership between Monica Varriale and Beno Stewart making delicate, low-intervention California wines from organic and biodynamic fruit.
Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig of Les Lunes Wine standing in a foggy California vineyard
California 2 min read
Les Lunes Wine
UC Davis graduates Diego Roig and Shaunt Oungoulian founded Les Lunes in California's Bay Area in 2014, farming over 20 hectares of organic vineyards in Sonoma and beyond and making minimal-intervention wines from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, and Cabernet Sauvignon.