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.
Benjamin Taillandier
After apprenticing with Jean-Baptiste Senat, Benjamin Taillandier farms Caunes-Minervois biodynamically to make lighter, fresher Minervois built for thirst.
La Cattiva
A collective of seven friends from Puglia who revived a dairy farm in Sammichele di Bari and began making spontaneously fermented, zero-sulfur wines from Primitivo and Trebbiano in 2019.
Les Bories Jefferies
British-born Jo Jefferies farms just 4 hectares of volcanic basalt soil around the village of Caux in the Hérault, making intensely mineral natural wines that have earned him a reputation as one of Languedoc's most compelling producers.
Stefano Legnani – Big in Japan
Stefano Legnani came to wine as a passionate drinker, not a farmer, leaving a career as a Bologna insurance broker to work his wife Monica's tiny vineyard near Sarzana, in eastern Liguria. His cult natural wines have made him a genuine star in Japan.
Liten Buffel
Zack Klug and Patrick Vaughn grow and vinify Pinot Noir, Syrah, and Riesling on 4.5 acres of New York's Niagara Escarpment with foot-crushing, old barrels, and a philosophy that puts spontaneity ahead of safety nets.
Delinquente Wine Co.
Con-Greg Grigoriou is rewriting the Riverland's reputation with bright, smashable wines from heat-loving Southern Italian grapes.
Laurent
Laurent Cazottes transforms rare heirloom grapes and orchard fruits from his biodynamic farm in the Tarn into vivid natural wines, eaux-de-vie, and liqueurs rooted in 12 generations of family history.
Aia dei Colombi
A Pascale-family estate in the Sannio hills bottles only its own grapes, championing Falanghina, Fiano, Aglianico, and the near-forgotten Barbera del Sannio.
Famille Brunier
Six generations of Bruniers have farmed the windswept La Crau plateau, where a deep mantle of rounded galets stones gives Vieux Télégraphe its benchmark Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Domaine Le Briseau
A pioneering Coteaux-du-Loir estate founded in 2002 by Christian Chaussard and Nathalie Gaubicher, whose zero-added-anything Chenin and Pineau d'Aunis helped shape Loire natural wine.
Château Ducasse
A perfectionist Barsac grower coaxes weighty, age-worthy dry white Bordeaux from old Semillon on clay and limestone over fissured rock.
De la Soif
A thirst-quenching California natural wine line from the Deux Punx duo, made for importer Merchants of Thirst.