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.
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.
Gaia Felix
Gaia Felix revives the ancient alberata tradition of vines climbing trees, farming Asprinio biodynamically on volcanic soils north of Caserta in Campania.
General Psychotic Activity
Four creative-arts friends in Los Angeles started General Psychotic Activity during the pandemic, making zero-sulfur wines from organic and biodynamic California fruit.
Francois Blanchard
A jazz musician turned vigneron, Francois Blanchard farms a single old-vine parcel of clay and silex in the Touraine and makes intuitive, low-intervention wines that he describes in the language of music.
Celler Xavier Clua
A fourth-generation Terra Alta family that left bulk wine behind in 1995, blending viticultural tradition with university training in sun-baked Vilalba dels Arcs.
Vini Pra
Graziano Pra's certified-organic Soave estate in Monteforte d'Alpone, making mineral, age-worthy Garganega-based whites with indigenous yeasts and no new oak since 1983.
Domaine Dupeuble
A southern Beaujolais estate running almost without interruption since 1512, where the Dupeuble family farms old Gamay vines into vibrant, carbonic-fermented wines of striking clarity.
Bonnet-Cotton
Pierre Cotton reclaimed a single hectare of rare 'corne verte' from his family to launch a cult Beaujolais domaine now run with agronomist Marine Bonnet.
Domaine Des Coteaux du Val
Jean-Francois Ryon's tiny Jura estate in Vernantois, organic since 2003, working 2.68 hectares of Jurassic blue marl with no additives and little or no sulfur.
Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme
Loire Valley vigneron Pierre-Olivier Bonhomme trained under Thierry Puzelat before establishing his own 9-hectare domaine in Touraine, making energetic natural wines from indigenous and endangered grape varieties.
Celler Frisach
Two brothers in Terra Alta who kept their well-tended grapes after a buyer walked away, and turned 200 years of family farming into vivid, low-intervention Garnatxa.
Domaine Charnay
After a decade in construction, Thibault Charnay returned home to farm 12 organic hectares of Gamay on the pierres dorees around Anse in southern Beaujolais.