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.
Paolo Fasolo
Alberto Buratti revived his grandfather's 1972 Euganean Hills farm under the Faedesfa label in 2020, farming 3.2 hectares on volcanic soils and making zero-sulfur pet-nats from rare local varieties.
Populis Wine
Shaunt Oungoulian and Diego Roig founded Populis in Orinda, California after European apprenticeships in Beaujolais and Languedoc, sourcing organic fruit statewide to prove California natural wine can be affordable and honest.
Broc Cellars
A pioneering urban winery in Berkeley's Gilman District that helped define California natural wine, fermenting organically farmed fruit with nothing added and little or no sulfur.
Gaudioso
Siblings Antonio and Rosa Gaudioso turned their family's six-generation Sicilian farm fully biodynamic, bottling Catarratto, Syrah and Zibibbo near Partanna.
Podere Casaccia
Physician-turned-vigneron Roberto Moretti and his wife Lucia Mori farm 12 biodynamic hectares outside Florence, making site-specific natural wines from rescued old Tuscan varieties on the hills of Scandicci.
J.Eubank & L.P. Almazlinos
A natural-wine partnership between Josh Eubank and Lara Peso, making garnacha-based wines in Spain's Terra Alta alongside pioneer Laureano Serres.
Domaine de la Voute des Crozes
An eight-generation family estate on Mont Brouilly where Nicole Chanrion, La Patronne de la Cote, has made traditional whole-cluster Cote-de-Brouilly since 1988.
Sifer Wines
The Orengo-Ferreira family found abandoned fifty-year-old vines in the Matarrana hills of Aragon and built Sifer around them: single-varietal, zero-sulfite, biodynamic wines from a landscape most wine lovers have never heard of.
Paolo Bea
The Bea family has farmed in Montefalco since the 1500s; Giampiero Bea carries forward his father Paolo's radical approach: 48-day macerations, indigenous yeasts, no filtration, hand-written labels.
Villa Dora
Organic Vesuvius winery farming ungrafted indigenous vines on volcanic pumice inside the national park, making Piedirosso, Falanghina, and Lacryma Christi with minimal intervention.
Márcio Lopes
Born in Porto in 1983, Márcio Lopes scours the Vinho Verde and Douro for old abandoned vineyards, then makes wines of fierce purity from them — native yeasts, minimal sulfur, and an impatience with the ordinary.
Tardieu-Jambon
Tardieu-Jambon is a friendship in a bottle: Beaujolais legend Philippe Jambon and organic Rhone vigneron Denis Tardieu, making simple, honest, sulfur-free wine from sun-baked southern French terroir.