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.

Alsace 2 min read
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, natural winemaker of Mas del Perie in Cahors, France
Cahors 1 min read
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.
Amphora 2 min read
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.
Winemaker Matteo Furlani standing in his alpine vineyard above Trento
Italy 2 min read
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.
Vigneronne Florence Guy working at a barrel in the cellar of Chateau Coujan
France 2 min read
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 — natural wine producer
Italy 3 min read
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…
Penedès 2 min read
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.
Josko Gravner in his vineyard in Oslavia, Collio
Friuli-venezia giulia 2 min read
Gravner
From Oslavia in Friuli's Collio, Josko Gravner pioneered the modern amber wine movement, fermenting Ribolla Gialla in buried Georgian qvevri.
Alexander and Maria Koppitsch of Weingut Koppitsch
Austria 2 min read
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.
France 2 min read
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 — natural wine producer
France 6 min read
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…
Germany 2 min read
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.