Natural Wine Producers: Working With Nature

A ninth-generation Cahors estate in Luzech where young Pierre Baltenweck farms biodynamically and makes supple, juicy Malbec.

Jot Camps tends ancient vines on the calcareous heights of the Massís del Garraf above Barcelona, producing small-batch natural wines from Ull de Llebre, Macabeu, Xarello, and other indigenous Catalan varieties on soils that date back to the twelfth century.

Maurizio Ferraro is the fiercely independent Piedmontese vigneron behind 'vinocinghialo,' or 'wild boar wine.' His bottles are rustic and wild in character yet precise and erudite, dissident wines shaped by his own creativity and a terroir he helped bring to life.

Fourth-generation Andi Knauss farms 15 hectares in Strümpfelbach, Württemberg by instinct and organic conviction, making natural Riesling, Trollinger, and Pinot Noir for the La Boutanche collaboration.

Podere Pradarolo is Alberto and Claudia Carretti's organic and biodynamic estate in Varano de' Melegari, Emilia-Romagna, founded in 1989. Working local varieties like Malvasia, Barbera, and Termarina, they are known for long skin macerations with only ambient yeasts and nothing added.

Aglianico vines that survived phylloxera on their own roots anchor a tiny organic estate above Montemarano, now made by young hands trained at a pioneering natural cellar.

Baptiste Cousin farms 4.5 hectares in Anjou with horses and old-vine intuition, making zero-sulfur natural wines that carry the spirit of his father Olivier Cousin's legendary natural-wine legacy into a new generation.

Luc and Marie Michel farm 12 biodynamic hectares across 22 garrigue-edged parcels in Pic Saint Loup, vinifying each plot separately to capture the diversity of Languedoc limestone.

Roberto Cristi returned to his family's Piacenza farm in 2009 and opened La Poiesa in 2013, producing zero-intervention pét-nats and still wines from Ortrugo, Malvasia, and Barbera on organic Emilian clay.

Progetto Sete is two childhood friends, Arcangelo and Emiliano, who came to natural wine through a love of craft beer. After Emiliano worked vintages with Gianmarco Antonuzi of Le Coste, they founded Sete in Priverno, in the Lazio countryside south of Rome.

The Kelhar family of Bizeljsko, Slovenia, with roots back to 1776, farm five hectares organically and biodynamically, making macerated and sparkling natural wines.

From the high village of Vergne above Barolo, a family that embraced organic farming in the early 1970s makes some of Piedmont's most elegant, perfumed, high-altitude Nebbiolo.