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.

Black and white portrait of Marco Buratti at Farnea winery, Colli Euganei, Veneto, Italy, celebrating natural wine.
Italy 3 min read
Farnea – Marco Buratti's Colli Euganei Hideout
Marco Buratti, who might seem rather gruff and surly at first impact, is just quiet and slightly shy...initially at least. He then pleasantly explodes…
Chad and Michelle Westbrook Hinds of Iruai standing in their Scott Valley vineyard near Mount Shasta
California 2 min read
Iruai
A husband-and-wife project pioneering alpine grape varieties in the mountains around Mount Shasta, far from California's familiar wine country.
Gustavo Bauzá, head enologist at Casa de Uco, smiling in the winery barrel cellar holding a glass of wine
Argentina 2 min read
WTF + Casa de Uco
Casa de Uco's certified organic estate in Los Chacayes produces altitude-driven wines from Argentina's most dynamic natural wine corner, the high Uco Valley.
Black and white portrait of Giusto Occhipinti at COS Winery, Sicily, highlighting natural wine craftsmanship.
Amphora 2 min read
COS
Three friends who could not legally buy wine when they made their first vintage went on to rescue Cerasuolo di Vittoria and build one of the world's largest amphora cellars.
Aglianico 2 min read
Il Cancelliere
In the high Taurasi village of Montemarano, the Romano family makes uncompromising, long-aged Aglianico from old peasant traditions and nothing but old wood.
Costadila founder Ernesto Cattel tasting a glass of his col fondo wine
Col fondo 2 min read
Costadila
Costadila is the col fondo pioneer Ernesto Cattel built in the Treviso hills, reviving cloudy bottle-refermented Prosecco with native grapes and no added sulfites.
Italy 2 min read
Etnella
A former Siemens manager walked away from corporate life to make humanistic, native-yeast wines from old vines scattered across the high contrade of Mount Etna.
Essaouira 2 min read
Domaine Du Val D’Argan
Charles Melia left Chateauneuf-du-Pape to found Morocco's first organic-certified vineyard near Essaouira, planting Rhone varieties in virgin terroir in 1994.
Biodynamic 2 min read
Lesom Weine
Jessika Reis and Philipp Musevi farm 1.3 steep-slate hectares across 20 kilometers of the Mosel, making spontaneously fermented Rieslings that carry the mineral intensity of old family parcels without compromise.
Biodynamic 3 min read
Le Sot de l'Ange
Quentin Bourse farms 12 biodynamic hectares in Azay-le-Rideau with an intensity that belies his modest output, coaxing Chenin Blanc, Grolleau, and Gamay from clay-silica soils into some of the Loire's most honest and compelling natural wines.
France 3 min read
Yannick Pelletier
A former Leon Barral protege works ten organic hectares of schist and limestone in Saint-Chinian, bottling Languedoc reds with no sulfites, fining, or filtration.
California 2 min read
Wild Jag
Adam Beck brings a punk musician's DIY ethic to natural winemaking in California, crafting accessible wines priced to party.