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.
Château de Grand Pré
In Fleurie, Romain Zordan farms organic cru Beaujolais and makes whole-bunch Gamay with native ferments and barely any sulphur.
Caparra & Siciliani
A historic Calabrian estate born in 1963 from two farming families, devoted almost entirely to native Gaglioppo in the Cirò appellation along the Ionian coast.
Proxies
Proxies, from Toronto's Acid League, are non-alcoholic wine alternatives built from grape juices, teas, spices, and ferments--crafted by winemaker Devin Campbell to honor wine's role at the table.
Natalino del Prete
Certified organic since 1994, Natalino del Prete farms 10 hectares of Primitivo, Negroamaro, and Malvasia Nera in San Donaci without irrigation, without chemicals, and without sulfur — making honest, rustic Salento wines built for the table.
Romain Petiteau La Tourlaudiere
Romain Petiteau leads the 21-hectare Domaine de la Tourlaudiere in Muscadet, converting a 17th-century family estate to organic viticulture and exploring low-intervention winemaking with Melon de Bourgogne.
Fattoria Calcabrina
A father-and-son goat farm turned biodynamic estate in the hills of Montefalco, where Diego and Angelo Calcabrina make tiny lots of zero-added-sulfite wine alongside their cheeses.
Gut Oggau
An Austrian estate where every cuvee is a fictional family member with its own face and personality, made from biodynamic Burgenland vineyards around a restored 17th-century manor.
De Fermo
Two lawyers traded the courtroom for a biodynamic estate above an 18th-century cellar in Abruzzo's Loreto Aprutino hills.
Visintini
A family winery rooted in medieval Friuli since 1884, farming biodynamically across the Colli Orientali to coax the best from Ribolla, Friulano, and native reds.
Franchere
Named for a fur-trade ancestor who reached Oregon in 1811, Mike Hinds makes native-yeast Willamette Valley wines with no new oak, no filtration and no temperature control.
Šuman
Radovan Šuman has farmed his family's Slovenian Styrian vines biodynamically for over two decades, sealing his amber wines in beeswax-coated clay bottles and bottling only on solstices.
Podere le Boncie
Giovanna Morganti farms 3.5 biodynamic hectares at the southern edge of Chianti Classico, coaxing pure, age-worthy Sangiovese from ancient soils and choosing IGT Toscana over appellation rules to make wine entirely on her own terms.