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.

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Ramon Parera, co-founder of Celler Pardas, holding a bottle of wine in the estate cellar
Catalonia 3 min read
Pardas
Ramon Parera and Jordi Arnan farm 35 organic hectares at Can Comas in Alt Penedes, where Xarel-lo, Sumoll, and rare indigenous varieties express clay-limestone terroir at 250 metres elevation.
Bruno Laboucarié, natural wine producer at Domaine de Fontsainte, in his vineyard in Corbières, Languedoc, France
Corbieres 1 min read
Domaine de Fontsainte
A historic Corbieres estate in Boutenac where the Laboucarie family pioneered carbonic maceration and Bruno now makes ageworthy reds and rose.
Il Roccolo di Monticelli - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Garganega 2 min read
Il Roccolo di Monticelli
Silvia Tezza, who came to wine without a winemaking family, rescued a walled clos of old Garganega vines near Verona to make sulfite-free, hands-off bottlings.
Damien Coquelet - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Beaujolais 2 min read
Damien Coquelet
Raised by natural-Beaujolais pioneer Georges Descombes, Coquelet launched his own organic domaine at twenty and now bottles crunchy, low-sulfur Morgon and Chiroubles.
Andrea Pendin of Tenuta l'Armonia tasting wine from a glass in his cellar
Italy 2 min read
Tenuta l'Armonia
Self-taught winemaker Andrea Pendin founded Tenuta l'Armonia in 2010 in Montecchio Maggiore, Vicenza, crafting biodynamic blends from Garganega, Durella, and Tai Rosso on volcanic Veneto soils.
Les Equilibriste - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Dordogne 2 min read
Les Equilibriste
Les Equilibristes is a French collective founded in 2015 by wine merchant Francois de Monval and winemaker Florent Girou, uniting eight vignerons across regions from the Loire to Languedoc under a shared commitment to organic farming and minimal intervention.
Andrew Jones of Field Recordings with grapes in a Central Coast vineyard, black and white
California 2 min read
Field Recordings
A vine nursery fieldman turned vintner, Andrew Jones bottles California's overlooked corners as a personal catalog of the people and places he loves.
Suzi Hilder and Wayne Ahrens crouching in their Vine Vale vineyard with their dog
Australia 2 min read
Smallfry
Wayne Ahrens and Suzi Hilder farm 18 certified organic and biodynamic hectares in Barossa's Vine Vale and Eden Valley, making natural wines from old vines with native ferments and minimal intervention.
Vartsikhe Marani - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Georgia 2 min read
Vartsikhe Marani
Historic Georgian winery in Baghdati, Imereti, fermenting rare indigenous varieties in qvevri using traditional methods that predate the modern wine world by millennia.
Skerk - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Carso 2 min read
Skerk
Sandi Skerk farms 7 hectares of Vitovska, Malvasia Istriana, and Terrano on the windswept limestone plateau of Carso, just meters from Slovenia, making age-worthy skin-contact whites and refined reds from a cellar carved into bedrock.
Manoir de la Tête Rouge - natural wine producer profile | Primal Wine illustration
Biodynamic 3 min read
Manoir de la Tête Rouge
Guillaume Reynouard's biodynamic estate in Le Puy-Notre-Dame brings 17th-century Saumur terroir to life through Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc, and rare Pineau d'Aunis with zero added sulfur.
Andrea Grossmann and Marc Balzan, winemakers of Domaine de Chèrouche in the Valais
Producer profile 2 min read
Chérouche
A career-changing Swiss couple farm vertiginous Valais slopes by hand, fermenting with wild yeast and no sulfur to bottle some of the Alps' most singular natural wines.