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.

Guido Zampaglione and Igiea Zampaglione of Tenuta Grillo at a wine fair, holding bottles
Italy 2 min read
Tenuta Grillo
Guido Zampaglione tends 16 organically farmed hectares in Gamalero, Alto Monferrato, crafting patient, age-worthy skin-contact whites and traditional reds released 8 to 15 years after harvest.
Portrait of winemaker Luigi Moio, showcasing natural wine from Taurasi DOCG, Campania, Italy.
Campania wine 1 min read
Taurasi DOCG
Taurasi Rosso and Taurasi Rosso Riserva are two Aglianico-based red wines from Campania Region, in Southern Italy. Due to their DOCG status, established in 1993, they can only be produced...
Milan Nestarec in his vineyard in Velke Bilovice, South Moravia, wearing a black cap and sweatshirt with his name on it
Blaufrankisch 3 min read
Milan Nestarec
Milan Nestarec farms 24 hectares organically in Velke Bilovice, South Moravia, turning loess-and-clay soils into playful, technically precise natural wines that have made him the most internationally recognized Czech winemaker of his generation.
Domaine la Bohème — natural wine producer
Auvergne 2 min read
Domaine la Bohème
Patrick Bouju's pioneering Auvergne domaine, farming century-old volcanic-soil vines and crafting vivid, mostly zero-sulfur Gamay and Chardonnay near the Puy de Dome.
Juan Sanchez, founder of La Dernière Goutte wine shop, Paris
France 2 min read
La Dernière Goutte
Cuban-American sommelier Juan Sanchez has run this beloved Saint-Germain-des-Prés wine shop since 1996, championing small-producer, organic, and biodynamic French wines decades before natural wine became fashionable.
Black muscat 3 min read
Papras Bio Wines
The Papras family has farmed organically on the slopes of Mount Olympus in Tyrnavos since 1990, making minimal-intervention ancestral-method sparklers and orange wines from Black Muscat of Tyrnavos.
France 2 min read
Domaine de l'Ecu
A long-certified biodynamic Muscadet estate where Fred Niger Van Herck bottles single-rock cuvees and ferments in a cellar of more than seventy terracotta amphorae.
Craig Weicker, owner and winemaker of Civic Winery in Eugene, Oregon, working with clay amphorae
Amphora 2 min read
Civic Winery
In a century-old downtown Eugene building, Craig Weicker fermented Oregon fruit in locally made clay amphorae, reviving a 6,000-year-old vessel for low-intervention wine.
Caleb Leisure — natural wine producer
California 2 min read
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.
Vanessa Letort of Du Vin Aux Liens tasting a glass of wine
Alsace 2 min read
Du Vin Aux Liens
A Breton-born negociant working between Alsace and Lorraine, Vanessa Letort buys grapes only from organic and biodynamic growers and vinifies them with nothing added.
Giuseppe Ferrua, winemaker and proprietor of Fabbrica di San Martino near Lucca, Tuscany
Italy 3 min read
San Martino
Giuseppe Ferrua has farmed Fabbrica di San Martino's 20-hectare biodynamic estate outside Lucca since the early 1990s, producing five wines from 3 hectares of ancient Tuscan vines using native yeast fermentation and no additions.
Absentee Winery — natural wine producer
California 2 min read
Absentee Winery
Founder Avi Deixler won a planning fight to open the only registered winery in Marin's North Marin Wine District, building a reputation for pristine reds made with grapes and nothing else.