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.
Loose Wines
Los Angeles lifestyle duo Bo Yeong and Kevin Carney created Loose Wines with Emilia-Romagna producer Massimo Randi: a trio of organic, ancestral-method pet nat sparkling wines from indigenous Longanesi and Malbo Gentile grapes.
Brangero
Three generations in Diano d'Alba, Marco Brangero blends inherited tradition with a modern hand, reaching to Verduno and Serralunga for his Barolo.
Viña Echeverría
A multigenerational Chilean family winery making approachable natural wines from pre-phylloxera vines in the historic Curicó Valley.
Plantamura
Mariangela Plantamura continues her family's century-long tradition of growing Primitivo in Gioia del Colle, making tiny-production organic wines from 3.5 hectares of old vines behind the family home.
La Boutanche Martin Texier
Martin Texier, son of northern Rhône legend Eric Texier, launched his own domaine in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban in 2014 and makes native-yeast, zero-sulfur wines from 5 hectares planted in clay, schist, gneiss, and granite.
Quinta da Serradinha
Fifth-generation farmer António Marques da Cruz tends 7 organic hectares near Leiria on Portugal's limestone Serra d'Aire, carrying forward a winemaking lineage that earned the country's first organic viticulture certification in 1994.
Constantina Sotelo
In the birthplace of Albarino, Constantina Sotelo is a rare Rias Baixas voice making fully natural, single-parcel wines outside the DO's restrictive rules.
Agnanum – Southern Italy Best Kept Natural Wine Secret
Agnanum, located on the volcanic hills of the Campi Flegrei area of the Mediterranean paradise of the Campania region, is one of the symbols…
Girolamo Russo
A former concert pianist returned to his family's old vines on Etna's northern slope, farming volcanic sciare across four contrade between 650 and 780 meters.
Clos Lentiscus
A tenth-generation Catalan family farm in the Garraf hills turning native Penedes grapes into some of Spain's most compelling sulfite-free sparkling wines.
Les Clos Perdus
Former Australian ballet dancer Paul Old has spent two decades tracking down lost Languedoc parcels, building a 20-hectare biodynamic estate that produces some of the Corbières and Roussillon's most compelling natural wines.
Giulia Negri Serradenari
Known as the Barolo Girl, Giulia Negri makes elegant, high-altitude Barolo and Burgundy-inspired Pinot and Chardonnay from La Morra's highest vineyards.