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.
Nasciri
Domenico and Francesca reclaimed a long-abandoned family property outside Gerace in 2010 to grow Calabria's ancient native grapes — Greco Bianco, Greco Nero, Calabrese Nero, Aglianico — with biodynamic principles and a name meaning 'to be born again' in the local dialect.
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.
Brij Wines
Named for sommelier Rajat Parr's father, Brij is his negociant label, buying from organically farmed Central Coast vineyards and bottling them with almost no intervention.
Chateau la Grolet
On Bordeaux's Right Bank, the Hubert family farms Cotes de Bourg biodynamically, with siblings Guillaume and Rachel making pure, low-sulfur reds.
Casot des Mailloles
A cult no-sulfur domaine on the steep terraces above Banyuls, founded by Alain Castex and Ghislaine Magnier and now carried on by Catalan winemaker Jordi Perez.
No Control
Former sports marketer turned punk-rock vigneron Vincent Marie launched No Control in 2012 in Volvic, Auvergne, farming 5 hectares of 117-year-old Gamay vines on volcanic soils with a horse and bottling every wine without sulfur, filtration, or any oenological additions.
Azienda Agricola Denavolo
Giulio Armani's solo project on Monte Denavolo, where white grapes macerate for months on their skins and are treated exactly as if they were red.
Domaine du Haut Bourg
Fourth-generation brothers Herve and Nicolas Choblet age Melon de Bourgogne on its lees for years beside Lake Grand-Lieu, redrawing the map of serious Muscadet.
Monastero Suore Cistercensi
The Cistercian nuns of Vitorchiano, Lazio, have farmed their five volcanic hectares organically since the early 1990s, hand-harvesting and spontaneously fermenting whites of rare meditative depth under the guidance of Giampiero Bea.
Barbara Lebled
Trained alongside her father Laurent, Barbara Lebled launched her own Touraine project in 2019, working organically across the central Loire's full grape palette.
Caneva da Nani
On the steep Glera slopes of Guia, the Canello family makes cloudy, crown-capped col fondo Prosecco that refements in bottle and proudly sits outside the official DOC rules.
Vodopivec
Paolo Vodopivec dedicates his Carso estate exclusively to Vitovska, fermenting in Georgian amphora to produce some of Italy's most profound orange wines.
