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 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.
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.