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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
A former NYU fiction student turned California natural winemaker, Caleb Leisure ferments organic Sierra Foothills fruit in Georgian qvevri buried in his cellar floor.
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.
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
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.
Domaine Chantal Lescure
A Nuits-Saint-Georges domaine founded in 1975, certified organic since 2006, with 18 hectares of pristine Cote de Nuits and Cote de Beaune vineyards.