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.
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.
Moulin de Gassac
Rooted in the Guibert family's 1974 founding of Mas de Daumas Gassac, Moulin de Gassac was launched in 1990 to bottle the wider Hérault through the same organic standards that have governed the family's estate from the very beginning.
François de Nicolay
Alongside running the historic Chandon de Briailles, Francois de Nicolay sources organic and biodynamic fruit from friends across Burgundy and Beaujolais to make pure, low-sulfur wines under his own negociant label.
François and Manuela Chidaine
A revered Loire couple farming 30 hectares of old-vine Chenin Blanc biodynamically across Montlouis and Vouvray, the Chidaines have become a benchmark for finesse and purity in Touraine white wine.
Pietraventosa
Marianna and Raffaele Annio founded Pietraventosa in 2005 in Gioia del Colle, Puglia, making ICEA-certified organic Primitivo from elevated limestone vineyards at 380 metres -- lean, mineral, and unlike any Primitivo from the flatlands.
L'Erba D'Agram
Mathias Guerrero Abras founded L'Erba d'Agram in 2019 near Aniane in the Languedoc, farming 5 hectares biodynamically and making zero-sulfur wines with nothing but grapes.
Fattoria di Gratena
An organic Tuscan estate above Arezzo run by the Sieni family, championing native Sangiovese and the recently recognized indigenous grape Gratena Nero.
AT Roca
A third-generation sparkling-wine name walked away from Cava to join Classic Penedes, making zero-dosage traditional-method bottles from organic, hand-picked Macabeu and Xarel-lo.
Heritage du Pic Saint Loup
The Ravaille brothers farm biodynamically at the foot of the Pic Saint-Loup, the family credited with bringing Syrah to an appellation their estate now helps define.
Celler de les Aus
The natural-wine, zero-sulfite arm of Alta Alella, named for the birds of the Serralada de Marina and built on pioneering no-sulfur cava.
Corentin Houillon
A scion of the Jura's famed Houillon family, Corentin makes biodynamic, native-yeast Savoie wines from 5 mountain hectares he found after searching twelve regions.