Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Randi for Vinovore is a collaboration between LA natural wine shop Vinovore -- founded by Coly Den Haan -- and Azienda Agricola Randi in Romagna, producing ancestral-method pet-nats from rare indigenous varieties including Famoso, Centesimino, and Longanesi.

A benchmark Muscadet estate built parcel by parcel by Marc Ollivier and now led by Remi Branger and Gwenaelle Croix, with an unusually high share of cru vineyards.

Enio Ferretti has farmed Carezzano organically since founding La Morella in 1985, growing indigenous Timorasso, Barbera, and Dolcetto on 10 certified organic hectares in Piedmont's Colli Tortonesi.

Guilhem Dardé and his family have farmed the volcanic and Permian red soils beside Lac du Salagou since 1993, making certified-organic Terrasses du Larzac wines of singular geological character from one of the Languedoc's most dramatic landscapes.

Eighth-generation Vincent Alexis turned a bulk Bergerac estate biodynamic, replanting forgotten local grapes and making dry, sweet and skin-contact wines.

An eighth-generation Saumur vigneron and a former professional dancer farm under four hectares organically, aging Cabernet Franc and Chenin in cellars carved straight into the region's tuffeau limestone.

Louis Terral is the only still-wine producer in the village of Mérignat, farming 2.2 biodynamic hectares of Gamay and Chardonnay in the mountains of Bugey with a pickaxe, no inputs, and no sulfur additions whatsoever.

Sauro Maule tends his family's converted cattle farm in the Colli Berici, coaxing expressive wines from Garganega, Durella, and Tai Rosso with zero added chemicals and very little sulfur.

Amarone della Valpolicella is one of the big Italian red wines. Amarone was born as a blend of three grape varietals indigenous to the Valpolicella area, Corvina, Rondinella, and...

A four-generation family estate in Cisterna d'Asti since 1903, Tenuta la Pergola farms 40 organically tended hectares across Roero, Monferrato, and Langhe with indigenous Piedmontese varieties.

Harry and Céline Gozlan, with winemaker Maxime Gamard, farm 31 organic hectares on a high-altitude Provence plateau above Jouques, crafting mineral, fruit-forward wines that stand apart from the region's mainstream rosé.

Former pharmaceutical researcher Ludovic Chanson traded his lab coat for a vineyard in 2009 and now farms 6.5 hectares of certified-organic Chenin Blanc in Montlouis-sur-Loire with minimal intervention.