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.

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.
Italy 3 min read
Programma Agricolo Dinamo
The Nofrini family and Danilo Marcucci produce deeply traditional, completely natural Umbrian wines from hilltop vineyards overlooking Lake Trasimeno at 600 meters elevation.
Natural wine 2 min read
End of Nowhere
Amador County's only homegrown natural winery, where a former New York sommelier turned farmer bottles native-yeast, no-additive wines from the Sierra Foothills.
Tony Coturri — natural wine producer
California 2 min read
Tony Coturri
Third-generation Sonoma Mountain winemaker and godfather of California natural wine, making sulfite-free, dry-farmed Zinfandel since 1979.
Colli orientali del friuli 3 min read
Marco Cecchini
Marco Cecchini farms eight organic hectares in the eastern hills of Friuli with tireless hand attention, producing indigenous-variety wines of purity and restraint from Faedis in the Colli Orientali.
Winemaker James Jelks of Florez Wines smiling and holding a bottle outdoors
California 2 min read
Florez Wines
James Jelks makes dry-farmed, sulfur-light California wines from old mixed-variety vineyards around Santa Cruz, dressed in Japanese-style woodcut labels.
Georgia 2 min read
Martvilis Marani
Winemaker Zaza Gagua left Tbilisi in 2015 to farm the subtropical lowlands of Samegrelo in western Georgia, cultivating ten indigenous grape varieties on four organic hectares and fermenting in qvevri to make wild, authentic expressions of one of the wine world's oldest regions.
Brand — natural wine producer
Germany 3 min read
Brand
Two brothers in Germany's northern Pfalz turning a fifth-generation family farm into one of the country's most exciting natural and pet-nat addresses, with their grandmother drawing the labels.
Dario Princic in his Friuli-Venezia Giulia vineyard, showcasing natural wine in Northern Italy.
Friuli-venezia giulia 3 min read
Dario Princic
Dario Princic has now for many years been a paradigmatic example and guiding light when it comes to masterful orange wines from Friuli-Venezia Giulia's…
Laetitia Ourliac of Domaine Fond Cypres standing on a path beside the Corbieres vineyards
Corbieres 2 min read
Fond Cypres
At the end of a cypress-lined road in the Corbieres, Laetitia Ourliac and Rodolphe Gianesini farm a 15-hectare garden of Mediterranean vines for soulful natural wines.
Arnaud Tessier with his wife Catherine at Domaine Tessier in Meursault
Burgundy 1 min read
Domaine Tessier
A 7.5-hectare Meursault domaine Arnaud Tessier took over at 22, devoted to white Burgundy from some of the village's finest climats.
France 2 min read
Caves de Seyseel
An alpine sparkling-wine revival in Savoie, where two families bought back the historic Royal Seyssel label in 2007 to remake a wine once famous across Europe.