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.
Vincent
Vincent Gross of Les Vins Pirouettes crafts skin-contact Alsatian blends in collaboration with Christian Binner, fermenting with native yeasts and bottling without sulfur.
Fabien Jouves
On the highest slopes of Cahors, Fabien Jouves farms his family land biodynamically and bottles Malbec as a pure, living expression of the Quercy limestone.
Costador
From a single Catalan mountain, Joan Franquet rescues vines up to 110 years old and ferments nearly extinct local grapes in clay amphorae under his Metamorphika label.
Furlani
Matteo Furlani is the self-styled wizard of in-bottle fermentation, coaxing radical alpine pet-nats and frizzante from biodynamic vines high above Trento.
Château Coujan
Fifth-generation Florence Guy farms Saint-Chinian vines on rare fossilized-coral soils, the family that first brought Mourvedre and Rolle to the Languedoc.
Frank Cornelissen – From Belgium to Mount Etna
What would you have thought if, about 20 years ago, someone told you that, in just about a decade, a previously unknown Belgian wine…
Agustí Torelló Roca
A third-generation Penedès vigneron who left the Cava DO behind to chase tension, place and zero-dosage purity from indigenous Catalan grapes.
Gravner
From Oslavia in Friuli's Collio, Josko Gravner pioneered the modern amber wine movement, fermenting Ribolla Gialla in buried Georgian qvevri.
Koppitsch
A husband-and-wife estate on the shores of Lake Neusiedl making biodynamically inspired, hand-crafted natural wines from a family vineyard with five centuries of history.
Château Landra
At the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse, the Renoux family revived one of the Ventoux's oldest cellars and turned it fully natural.
Jules Chauvet | The Godfather of Natural Wine
In natural wine, few names carry as much weight as Jules Chauvet. Often referred to as the "godfather of natural wine," Chauvet's influence on…
Vin de Lagamba
Alanna Lagamba's Rheinhessen natural wine project: a Canadian-born, Berlin-formed winemaker making zero-sulfur, spontaneous pet-nats and sparkling Sekt from organic German fruit.