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.
John Almansa
A Languedoc farmer who tends sheep, bees and olives alongside two hectares of old Cinsault, making zero-sulfur whole-cluster wines under his Domaine Zou Mai label.
Ranchelle
German expat Christoph Fischer founded Ranchelle in 2014 to preserve Maremma's vanishing viticultural heritage, farming 4 hectares of ancient indigenous varieties in Tuscany's wild southwestern corner with zero additives and spontaneous fermentation.
Barbichette
Louisiane Remy and César Vega began making wine in a corner of his Brooklyn coffee roastery, then moved north to craft additive-free Finger Lakes cuvees.
Vini Sassara
A husband-and-wife team farming biodynamically on the ancient morainic soils of Bardolino, drawing out the forgotten complexity of Veneto's indigenous grapes.
Carolina Gatti – The Best Natural Prosecco
Carolina Gatti is more than just one of the pioneer natural vignerons in Veneto’s prosecco area, sadly a land rich with ancient farming and…
Bauregard Mirouze
A husband-and-wife team spent a decade bringing tired Corbières soils back to life, then went biodynamic and additive-free in the wild garrigue near Narbonne.
Cascina Lieto
A Japanese couple's micro-estate launched in 2018 in Castiglione Tinella, Piedmont, making organic, biodynamic, bottle-aged wines from Moscato, Cortese, Freisa, Barbera and Nebbiolo.
La Sorga
Antony Tortul launched La Sorga in 2008 as an itinerant natural negociant in Languedoc, sourcing from 25 hectares of old vines across calcareous, schist, basalt and granite terroirs to produce zero-sulfite, whole-bunch wines of arresting purity.
Pheasant's Tears
Founded in 2007 by painter John Wurdeman and eighth-generation grower Gela Patalishvili, this Kakheti estate revives near-extinct Georgian varieties in buried qvevri.
Château de Roquefort
A north-facing Provençal amphitheatre near Cassis where biodynamic farming and a long de Villeneuve legacy yield rosés and reds that defy the region's commercial cliches.
Bruno Schueller
From the hamlet of Husseren-les-Châteaux, Bruno Schueller farms biodynamically and ferments dry, low-sulfur Alsace wines that often defy the appellation's tasting panels.
Guthrie Family Vineyards
In Sonoma, New Zealand-born Blair Guthrie and his wife Caroline make small-batch, low-intervention wines from organically grown grapes, built from scratch.