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.

Giovanna Tiezzi of Pàcina standing in her vineyards near Castelnuovo Berardenga, Tuscany
Italy 3 min read
Pàcina
Giovanna Tiezzi and her family have stewarded Pàcina, a 10th-century monastery estate near Castelnuovo Berardenga in Tuscany, for nearly a century, producing some of Italy's most quietly radical natural Sangiovese.
Flavio Restani of Koi standing in his vineyard
Emilia-romagna 1 min read
Koi
A former Lambrusco cellar hand turned grower making tiny lots of col fondo sparkling wine from old, hand-trained vines in the hills west of Bologna.
Beaujolais 3 min read
Rapahel Beysang
Alsatian-born Raphael Beysang and his Quebec partner Emelie Hurtubise farm 7 hectares biodynamically in southern Beaujolais, making zero-zero Gamay in litre bottles under the GAEC Lapins des Vignes label with whole-bunch fermentation and no additions.
Barolo 2 min read
Cascina Pugnane
A Ghisolfi-family Barolo estate on the Pugnane hill at Castiglione Falletto, hand-harvesting Nebbiolo for tiny-production, Slavonian-oak-aged Barolo crus.
Dirty & Rowdy co-founder and winemaker Hardy Wallace, black and white portrait
California 2 min read
Dirty & Rowdy
An ex-tech-sales blogger turned cult California winemaker who made Mourvedre the standard-bearer of the natural wine movement.
Barbera 2 min read
MonteStregone
Alessandro Gallo and Roberto Orsi make concentrated Barbera d'Asti and Dolcetto d'Acqui from a three-hectare south-facing hillside vineyard in the thermal spa town of Acqui Terme, on a hill where local legend claims the last Piedmontese witches once gathered.
Laureano Serres of Mendall in his orchard in Terra Alta, Catalonia, wearing a straw hat
Carignan 3 min read
Mendall
Former computer programmer Laureano Serres returned to his ancestral village in Terra Alta in 1999 and became one of Spain's most influential natural winemakers, farming biodynamically on limestone at 400 meters elevation without a drop of added sulfur.
Natural wine 1 min read
Fernweh
A Los Angeles natural wine project founded by Berlin-born Sebastian Lowa, sourcing biodynamic and organic fruit from Santa Barbara County for low-intervention bottlings.
Germany 2 min read
Der Rebenhof
A small Mosel estate in Urzig devoted entirely to old-vine, ungrafted Riesling from the steep slate of the Wurzgarten.
Emilia-romagna 3 min read
Oro di Diamanti
Riccardo and Susanna Diamanti farm 3.5 organic hectares in Zola Predosa, crafting pet-nat and traditional-method sparklers from indigenous Pignoletto that are unfined, unfiltered, and sulfite-free.
The Ruggeri family of Le Colture gathered in their wine cellar surrounded by bottles
Glera 2 min read
Le Colture
The Ruggeri family has cultivated the steep Glera vineyards of Santo Stefano di Valdobbiadene for generations, crafting Prosecco Superiore DOCG that expresses the singular terroir of Italy's most celebrated sparkling wine hills.
Winemaker Danilo Marcucci standing among the vines at Ceppaiolo in Umbria
Italy 2 min read
Ceppaiolo
On a tiny Umbrian plot of 70-year-old vines, Danilo Marcucci makes wine with 1950s gear and no recipe, deciding each vintage by tasting the grapes.