Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Three generations in Diano d'Alba, Marco Brangero blends inherited tradition with a modern hand, reaching to Verduno and Serralunga for his Barolo.

A multigenerational Chilean family winery making approachable natural wines from pre-phylloxera vines in the historic Curicó Valley.

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.

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.

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.

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 is Raffaele Moccia's estate on the volcanic hills of Campi Flegrei, inside Campania's Astroni National Park. The Moccia family has farmed here for more than 40 years, tending about four hectares of vines on black volcanic sand in a landmark of Italian heroic viticulture.

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.

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.

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.

Known as the Barolo Girl, Giulia Negri makes elegant, high-altitude Barolo and Burgundy-inspired Pinot and Chardonnay from La Morra's highest vineyards.

Christophe Aguilar farms 100 organic hectares near Bezouce in the southern Rhône, producing honest wines from Grenache, Syrah, and Carignan named for the wild Mediterranean herb growing throughout his vines.