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.

Alta Alella — natural wine producer
Alella 2 min read
Alta Alella
Inside a natural park barely a mile from the Mediterranean, this Pujol-Busquets family estate has farmed organically since 1991 on Alella's distinctive white granite sand.
Jean-François Ganevat portrait, master of natural wine in Jura, France - showcasing artisanal winemaking excellence.
France 2 min read
Jean-François Ganevat
A Burgundy-trained vigneron returned to a family plot worked since 1650 and turned it into the Jura's most coveted source, with more than fifty cuvées and dozens of forgotten grapes.
Tiago Teles pointing over his vineyard in Bairrada, Portugal
Bairrada 2 min read
Tiago Teles
Former wine writer and telecom engineer Tiago Teles makes low-intervention wines from Bairrada, Lisboa, and Vinho Verde, foot-trodding grapes in a small cement lagar and adding no sulfur.
Italy 3 min read
Piccolo Podere del Ceppaiolo
Danilo Marcucci and Riccardo Pennaforti protect one of Umbria's oldest vineyards near Assisi on just 1.7 hectares, fermenting ancient local varieties spontaneously in cement and resin tanks with zero sulfur additions.
Daniel Ravier, director and winemaker of Domaine Tempier in Bandol
Bandol 1 min read
Domaine Tempier
The Bandol estate that made Mourvedre famous, where the Peyraud family and director Daniel Ravier craft single-parcel reds and the celebrated rose.
Stefano Amerighi of Cortona, Tuscany in his vineyard, examining vines
Cortona 3 min read
Stefano Amerighi
Stefano Amerighi is Cortona's great Syrah champion: a Demeter-certified biodynamic farmer who identified his ideal hillside terroir in 2001, planted Rhone clones, and now produces wines that belong in conversation with the finest expressions of the variety anywhere in the world.
Angelo Negro — natural wine producer
Arneis 3 min read
Angelo Negro
A Roero family whose deeds reach back to 1670, with a forebear who bottled one of the first dry Arneis on record in 1971.
Claus Preisinger, biodynamic winemaker from Gols in Burgenland, Austria, in his cellar
Austria 2 min read
Claus Preisinger
From Gols on Lake Neusiedl, Claus Preisinger turned a young start into one of Austria's leading biodynamic addresses, fermenting Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt wild and bare.
Maria Jose Lopez de Heredia, fourth-generation co-owner of R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia
Producer profile 3 min read
Lopez de Heredia
Founded in 1877 in Haro by a Chilean-born entrepreneur, R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia is Rioja's most steadfast traditionalist: 170 estate hectares, in-house cooperage, 13,000 American oak barrels, and wines aged up to a decade before release.
Ross Maloof standing at the kitchen counter of No Clos Radio, Forest Grove, Oregon
Oregon 3 min read
Maloof Wines
Aerospace engineer Bee and hospitality veteran Ross Maloof farm organically certified old vines at their No Clos Radio estate in Oregon's Willamette Valley, producing white-focused natural wines of precision and energy.
Garganega 2 min read
Cantina Martinelli
Working vines inherited from his grandfather, Francesco Martinelli makes mineral, biodynamic Garganega from a forest-ringed cru in Soave, against the grain of the region's co-ops.
Le Coste di Gradoli — natural wine producer
Central italy 3 min read
Le Coste di Gradoli – Natural Wine Standard Bearers
Le Coste di Gradoli, which has long since become one of the darlings of natural wine lovers the world over and has attained something…