Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

The Loire estate, founded by ex-racer Didier Dagueneau in 1982 and now run by his children, set the global benchmark for serious, ageworthy, single-parcel Sauvignon Blanc.

Davide Andreatta, the boy who tore out easy vines to replant Veneto's native Vespaiola and Groppello, makes zero-zero wines in the hills around Breganze.

On Monte Masignano above the Colli di Luni, Ilenia Spagnoli turns a 1950s family farm's two hectares of vines into spontaneous, unfiltered Vermentino and skin-contact whites.

South of Modena, the Zanasi family farms organic Grasparossa on limestone clay and bottles bone-dry Lambrusco using only native yeast, with grandson Marco now at the helm.

In Serralunga d'Alba, Guido Porro quietly makes classically built Barolo from old Nebbiolo vines in the Lazzarito cru, one of Barolo's great values.

Former geologist Marc Houtin founded La Grange aux Belles in Anjou in 2004, and together with partners Julien Bresteau and Gérald Peau, now farms fifteen organic hectares of black schist to make some of the Loire's most vital natural wines.

Abruzzo sommelier-turned-winemaker Luca Bevilacqua vinifies his father's clay-soiled vines in Atessa to produce pure, high-drinkability Montepulciano and Trebbiano with zero additions.

In Entre-Deux-Mers, fifth-generation Stéphane Dupuch farms hilltop old vines organically, including Semillon planted over a century ago.

Raimones unites the next generation of three neighboring Penedes wine families -- Montse Carbo, Jordi Jane, and Marti Sadurni -- to rescue the rare Marina grape and craft vibrant, hand-harvested natural wines from dry-farmed Catalan vineyards.

Adrien Berlioz farms seven hectares across 17 steep Savoie micro-parcels by hand, Demeter-certified biodynamic, bottling a cuvee from each named for a family member.

Third-generation Gols grower Andreas Gsellmann farms 19 biodynamic hectares under Respekt, working Blaufränkisch and Zweigelt to express Burgenland terroir without additives.

Remo Bartolomei launched La Regina del Quartuccio in 2020, naming the project after his mother's nickname, and produces vivid orange and red wines from ancient volcanic vines on the southern slopes of Lake Bolsena in northern Lazio.