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.
Tanca Els Ulls
In the village of Nulles, where his grandfather once farmed the vines, Cesc Boronat is the last active winemaker standing -- reviving indigenous Catalan varieties with eyes wide open and a conviction that this forgotten corner of Alt Camp deserves to be heard.
Les Cigales dans la Fourmilière
Named after a folk-rock lyric about cicadas bringing the party to the anthill, Julie and Ivo's Montpeyroux domaine makes fresh, lifted Languedoc wine from stony Larzac foothills.
Ercole
An everyday-Piedmont label built with a generations-old Monferrato growers' cooperative, putting honest, old-vine wines in screw-cap liter bottles.
Fabio Gea
A geologist turned vigneron, Fabio Gea farms under two hectares near Barbaresco and ferments his Nebbiolo in porcelain eggs of his own design.
Le Temps d'Aimer
François Maudet and Romain Jos craft transparent, mineral-driven natural wines from 2.7 hectares of slate-rich Anjou vineyards, guided by friendship and a shared belief that the best wine requires as little interference as possible.
Sassocorno
Four friends founded Sassocorno in 2017 in Corno di Rosazzo, Friuli, choosing the land out of love rather than inheritance to grow native varieties organically and make spontaneously fermented wines that taste of eastern Friuli's mineral seabed soils.
Herve Villemade
A leading natural vigneron of the Loire's Cheverny, Herve Villemade farms organically and ferments with native yeasts across concrete, foudre, barrique and amphora.
Gaspard
Born from importer Jenny Lefcourt's network of Loire growers, Gaspard proves that honest, native-yeast natural wine can sit at an everyday price.
Agricola Cirelli – Francesco's Dream
It is in the ruggedly beautiful hills near Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy about 8km from the crystalline Adriatic sea...
Sonshine Vins
Lisanne van Son, a Dutch sommelier turned vigneron, makes joyful, low-intervention wines from her 4-hectare estate in the Bugey, where she and partner Edouard farm organically and let the wines find their own way.
Distina – Run to the Hill
Distina is Claudio Campaner's small organic estate in the Colli Piacentini hills of Emilia-Romagna, among natural-wine neighbors like La Stoppa and Denavolo. A former distiller, he returned home in 2017 to make natural wines and spirits, and now farms about six hectares.
Ashanta Wines
A partnership between third-generation winemaker Chenoa Ashton-Lewis and cinematographer Will Basanta, born from a family vineyard scarred by the 2017 Nuns Fire and named partly for the Swahili word for thank you.