Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Azimut is the affordable, organic-grape line from the Suriol family's 400-year-old Penedès estate, best known for a lees-aged Brut Nature Cava with no dosage.

Marie and Vincent Tricot work pre-phylloxera vines in Auvergne's volcanic Puy-de-Dome, making zero-sulfur wines that define modern French natural wine.

Fifth-generation Bordeaux estate in Libourne converting to biodynamics under Christophe Pueyo, producing Saint-Emilion and Bordeaux ACs with minimal intervention since 2010.

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 prominent natural wine producer based in Alcamo, a picturesque area in northwestern Sicily. He has gained significant recognition for his…