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.
António Pereira
On the banks of the Tamega, a grower coaxes the rare red-fleshed Tinta Nacional into a long-aged, lightly fizzy red unlike anything else in Vinho Verde.
Kewin Descombes
Son of Morgon icon Georges Descombes, Kewin Descombes farms granite parcels of old-vine Gamay organically and carries the family's natural tradition forward.
Anders Frederik Steen
A Noma-trained Dane turned Ardèche vigneron names each one-time-only cuvee after poetry and song, adding nothing and taking nothing away from the grapes.
Azienda Agricola Siciliano
An old north-facing Etna vineyard born after the 1981 eruption, brought back to life as a natural wine project with winemaker Alessandro Viola guiding the cellar since 2015.
Bonnet-Ponson
Farming organic since 2013 across 50 old-vine parcels in the Petite Montagne, this multigenerational house is a rare certified grower in Champagne.
Lucy Margaux
South African-born Anton van Klopper farms organically in the Basket Range of the Adelaide Hills and produces entirely sulfur-free wines that helped establish Australia's natural wine movement.
Simon Busser
Simon Busser farms 5 hectares of Cot, Merlot, and Chenin Blanc along the Lot river near Cahors using horse-drawn plowing and zero additives, a quiet pillar of France's radical natural wine community.
Artana
Two sisters carry on their great-grandfather's Kakhetian cellar, fermenting indigenous grapes in buried qvevri with nothing added and nothing taken away.
Julien Altaber
A son of Auvergne dairy farmers who learned natural winemaking under Dominique Derain and now runs both Domaine Sextant and the historic Domaine Derain in Burgundy.
Pielihueso
A family project born in 2017 in Argentina's Uco Valley, where daughter Celina Bartolome convinced her organic-farmer father Alejandro to plant vines and make light, vibrant, correction-free wines.
Frenchtown Farms
Aaron and Cara Mockrish farm and make wine in California's North Yuba foothills, mentored by Clos Saron's Gideon Beinstock, crafting foot-trodden, native-ferment wines from organic mountain vineyards.
Azienda Agricola Imazio Colline Novaresi
Azienda Agricola Imazio is a family estate in the Colline Novaresi of northern Piedmont, with land records dating to the 1700s. Certified organic by ICEA, they farm sustainably and specialize in Nebbiolo, known locally as Spanna, alongside other natural wines.