Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Marco de Bartoli abandoned a career as a professional racing driver to rescue Marsala from industrial decline, creating the unfortified Vecchio Samperi and restoring the ancient in perpetuum method to western Sicily.

Established in La Morra since the eighteenth century, Poderi e Cantine Oddero farms 35 hectares of Langhe organically, making structured Barolo and Barbaresco aged in large Slavonian oak botti under the sixth and seventh generation of the Oddero family.

Benoit and Celine Blet founded Les Terres Blanches in 2004 in Oiron at the gates of Anjou, farming 10 biodynamic hectares of schist and limestone soils with Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, and Gamay de Bouze, replanting half the estate from their own massale selections.

Claude and Etienne Courtois farm over 40 grape varieties on flinty Sologne soils, making zero-input natural wines that have defined the Loire's radical edge since Claude began organic farming in the 1970s.

Founded in 1989 in Sardinia's Gallura zone, Piero Mancini has become a benchmark producer of Vermentino di Gallura DOCG, farming 120 hectares of organic vineyards across four distinct parcels.

Roberto Maestri founded Quarticello in 2001 in Montecchio Emilia to revive traditional Emilian pétillant naturel, growing only native varieties on the foothills of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines with biodynamic care.

Two former television workers, Piero Riccardi and Lorella Reale, left the screen to save Lazio's indigenous Cesanese, farming biodynamically on volcanic and sandstone soils near Rome.

Founded by Marco Sferlazzo in 2005, this high-altitude Camporeale estate champions old-vine alberello Catarratto and rare Perricone, farmed biodynamically.

Alessandro Viola is a natural-wine producer in Alcamo, northwestern Sicily, farming seven hectares of native varieties like Grillo, Catarratto, and Nero d'Avola. He works organically with spontaneous fermentation, no fining or filtration, and little to no added sulfites.

Born from a partnership between Eric Narioo and a collective of Abruzzo farmers in 2014, Passione Natura produces biodynamic Montepulciano and Trebbiano from mountain vineyards in one of Italy's most dramatic natural landscapes.

Wolfgang Weber and Chad Westbrook Hinds founded En Cavale in 2017 to re-examine classic West Coast grapes like Sauvignon Blanc and Zinfandel through a natural, affordable lens.

Folicello is Marco and Antonella, a husband-and-wife team who have made living, natural wines in the Emilia-Romagna countryside since the early 1980s. Their affordable natural sparklers were among the very first wines Primal Wine ever bought, and they remain house favorites.