Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

Filippo Rizzo returned to his remote patch of central Sicily in the early 2000s after running a natural-wine restaurant in Belgium, and now farms 11 hectares of organic Frappato, Nero d'Avola and Nerello Mascalese at 450 metres between Etna and Vittoria.

After two decades making wine for others, Charlie Gilmore launched his own Sonoma label in 2018 to prove that simplicity, not machinery, makes the best wine.

A collective of five wine professionals, led by Raffaele Bonivento with winemaker Stefano Menti, making honest, affordable Veneto naturals from biodynamic Gambellara fruit.

Olivier Cohen left Nice's natural wine bar scene to take over 7 hectares of old vines in Argelliers, Languedoc, where he makes zero-sulfur wines that draw equally on garrigue, intuition, and mentors like Thierry Allemand.

A play on Garganega and the Italian for naked, Garganuda is Andrea Fiorini Carbognin's biodynamic Gambellara project, born from his bond with Stefano Menti.

Former Paris fashion director Laurence Manya Krief farms five hectares of cliff-side schist in Banyuls-sur-Mer with a mule and radical precision.

Founded in 2012 by Giorgi Tsirghvava and Mamuka Tsiklauri in Georgia, Ocho makes organic kvevri wines from indigenous varieties across Kakheti and Kartli, celebrating Georgian fauna and ancient winemaking tradition.

Two friends, Nicola and Guido, revived their families' farmland in the Alcamo hills in 2015 to make low-intervention wines from native Sicilian grapes, plus olive oil and honey.

A historic Alsace house with roots in 1795, revived under vigneron Jean-Baptiste Adam since 2004 with a shift to organic and biodynamic farming.

Founded in Cape Town in 2020 by Hardy McQueen, Nice Bev Co. is a proudly Black-owned negociant giving South Africa's most talented emerging winemakers a platform, led by 2024 Diners Club Winemaker of the Year Kiara Scott-Farmer.

Hank Beckmeyer and Caroline Hoel farm ten organic acres at 2,600 feet in California's Sierra Foothills, making small-batch natural wines guided by the do-nothing philosophy of Masanobu Fukuoka.

Rémi Poujol farms 12 hectares near Pézenas, Languedoc with two horses and no inputs, producing searingly honest natural wines since his first vintage in 1993. His motto: le temps fait tout — time does it all.