Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

On volcanic slopes above Lake Bolsena, Andrea Occhipinti rescued the near-forgotten Aleatico di Gradoli and made Italy's first dry version, farming five organic hectares since 2004.

The Binner family has grown grapes in Ammerschwihr since 1770; Christian farms 11 Demeter-certified hectares and ferments spontaneously in old foudres with no added sulfur.

A couple left science publishing after one accidental glass of natural wine, then came home to Franconia to make additive-free wines and host bat colonies in the vineyard.

Sam Vinciullo returned to his native Western Australia in 2015 after working harvests across the globe, including with Frank Cornelissen on Mount Etna, to make raw, zero-addition natural wines in Margaret River.

Sisters Antonella and Ersiliana Bronca farm 20 hectares of steep UNESCO-listed hillsides in Valdobbiadene by hand, making some of Italy's most expressive and sustainably crafted Prosecco.

A fourth-generation Frontonnais house run by a fluid-mechanics PhD who swapped a planned career at Renault for Negrette and organic conversion.

On a volcanic island closer to Africa than to mainland Italy, a winemaker who learned passito from his grandfather farms scattered Zibibbo plots without chemicals or added sulfur.

Brothers Charles and Guillaume Soulier reclaimed four hectares of their father's vines in 2015 in the Gard, southern Rhone, farming by permaculture principles with horses and animals and making sulfur-free, unfiltered wines from Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault.

Former footballer and Rome barman turned biodynamic farmer, Mario Macciocca grows Cesanese, Passerina, and Malvasia Puntinata on four hectares of volcanic limestone in the Scalambra hills of Lazio, making some of Italy's most compelling natural wines from a criminally underrated grape.

Seventh-generation Aurélien Laherte farms 10.5 biodynamic hectares across 75 parcels in Chavot, Champagne, vinifying plot by plot in old Burgundy barrels without malolactic fermentation to produce grower Champagnes of startling terroir precision.

The wine business – like many other fields – is one in which women have been underrepresented for too long. In recent years, however,…

A father-and-son estate on the Cahors causse making spontaneous, unfiltered Malbec that reveals the brighter, more delicate side of the appellation.