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.

Scott Sampler leaning over a table with six bottles of his Scotty Boy and CCGP wines, wearing glasses and a printed t-shirt
Central coast 3 min read
Scotty Boy!
Former Hollywood director Scott Sampler makes zero-addition, zero-sulfur country wines in Buellton, California -- joyful, chuggy, and alive with the wild character of organically farmed Central Coast fruit.
Lidia Carbonetti of Rocco di Carpeneto working on a large wooden fermentation vessel in the cellar
Italy 3 min read
Rocco di Carpeneto
Former Milanese finance professionals Lidia Carbonetti and Paolo Baretta left the city in 2008 to farm ancient Piedmont vineyards in the Alto Monferrato hills, making zero-zero wines from native grapes.
Cabernet franc 2 min read
Claire and Florent Bejon
Two former amateurs turned vignerons farm tiny Cabernet Franc and Chenin parcels on the banks of the Vienne, bottling Chinon-area wines with no additives at all.
Argentina 2 min read
Bodegas Krontiras
A Greek couple traded the Aegean for the Andes, building one of Argentina's first biodynamic estates and a Malbec made with zero added sulfur.
Fredi Torres in his Catalonian vineyard holding a cluster of grapes
Grenache 2 min read
Fredi Torres
A Galician-Swiss DJ turned winemaker, Fredi Torres farms schist terraces across four corners of Catalonia, working organically and with biodynamic principles to make bright, low-alcohol expressions of Priorat and beyond.
Vigneti Vallorani — natural wine producer
Italy 2 min read
Vigneti Vallorani
Fifth-generation family estate in southern Le Marche farming 8 certified-organic hectares of Sangiovese, Montepulciano, and Pecorino near the Adriatic coast since 1905.
Didier Ferrier and Jennifer Buck of Colline de l'Hirondelle in the Corbieres
Corbieres 2 min read
Colline de l'Hirondelle
A Franco-American couple makes organic Corbieres wines on a bird-refuge hillside in the Aude, including a Grenache-Mourvedre bottled with no added sulfites.
Bodega Frontio — natural wine producer
Arribes 2 min read
Bodega Frontio
A former Maersk Oil executive left Denmark to revive century-old Juan García vines on granite at Fermoselle, in Spain's remote DO Arribes on the Portuguese border.
Burgundy 2 min read
Vini Viti Vinci
Paris wine-bar veteran who moved to northern Burgundy to ferment overlooked appellations with zero inputs and unflinching natural conviction.
Joel Burt and Eric Wareheim of Las Jaras Wines
California 2 min read
Las Jaras
Winemaker Joel Burt and actor-director Eric Wareheim founded Las Jaras in 2017, sourcing from organic and sustainably farmed old-vine sites across Mendocino, Sonoma and Oregon to produce low-intervention California wines that are food-friendly, lower-alcohol and genuinely fun.
Stefano Bellotti of Cascina degli Ulivi in his cellar
Biodynamic 2 min read
Cascina degli Ulivi
The Piedmont farm where the late Stefano Bellotti turned a single hectare into one of Italy's defining biodynamic estates, now carried on by his daughter Ilaria.
Megan Bell, founder and winemaker of Margins, in her Santa Cruz tasting room
California 3 min read
Margins
Megan Bell founded Margins in 2016 to spotlight California's overlooked grape varieties and marginal wine regions, building one of the state's most distinctive low-intervention portfolios before closing in 2026.