Natural Wine Guides
Our guides cover the producers, regions and wines that matter in the natural wine world — from the pioneers who started the movement to the regions that define it today. Each guide is built on verified information, written for people who want to understand natural wine beyond the label.
Producers
Pierre Overnoy — the producer who started natural wine
How a vigneron in Pupillin stopped adding sulphur and became the reference point for the entire natural wine movement.
Thierry Allemand — the man who made Cornas great
How a labourer who replanted abandoned Cornas terraces proved that natural Syrah can reach classical greatness.
Joško Gravner — how one trip to Georgia changed wine forever
How a modernist in Friuli Collio turned to qvevri and made the defining bottle of modern orange wine.
Jean-François Ganevat — Jura's most obsessive vigneron
How a return from Burgundy to Rotalier produced one of natural wine's most extreme parcellaire ranges.
Jean Foillard and the Gang of Four — how Beaujolais found its soul
How Foillard, Lapierre, Thévenet and Breton turned away from industrial nouveau and made Gamay serious again.
Marcel Lapierre — the man who made natural Beaujolais possible
How Chauvet's ideas became everyday Morgon — and why Lapierre remains the figurehead of the Gang of Four.
Radikon — how a village in Friuli defined orange wine
How Stanko Radikon's return to skin contact in Oslavje — beside Gravner — helped define modern orange wine.
Jacques Selosse — the producer who invented grower champagne
How Anselme Selosse brought Burgundian parcellaire thinking to Avize and made grower champagne a serious category.
Guy Breton (P'tit Max) — Beaujolais natural wine's most joyful producer
The Gang of Four's fourth member — old-vine Morgon, light Gamay, and the pleasure side of natural Beaujolais.
Jean-Paul Thévenet — Morgon's most generous natural wine producer
Polpo of the Gang of Four — old-vine Morgon, plush Gamay, and father-and-son continuity in Villié-Morgon.
The Gang of Four — the producers who saved Beaujolais
Foillard, Lapierre, Thévenet and Breton — the four who turned away from Nouveau and made Gamay serious again.
Regions
Languedoc natural wine — the complete guide
Appellations, grapes, terroir and the natural-wine producers PACT imports from Saint-Chinian, Faugères and beyond.
Jura natural wine — the complete guide
Grapes, ouillé vs sous voile, vin jaune, appellations and the Jura producers who shaped natural wine.
Beaujolais natural wine — the complete regional guide
Gamay, granite, ten crus and why natural Beaujolais belongs in the same conversation as village Burgundy.
Georgia natural wine — the oldest wine tradition in the world
Qvevri, Kakheti and Imereti — the living tradition that shaped modern orange wine.
Guides
What is natural wine? The complete guide
Minimal intervention from vineyard to bottle — organic farming, wild yeasts and nothing added in the cellar. How natural wine differs from conventional and organic wine.
What is red natural wine? The complete guide
Lighter colour, softer tannins and more sense of place — how red natural wine differs from conventional red, from Cinsault to old-vine Carignan.
What is white natural wine? The complete guide
More texture and site-character — how white natural wine differs from conventional white, from ouillé Savagnin to Languedoc Grenache Blanc.
What is orange wine? The complete guide
White wine made like red — amber colour, tannins and a flavour world of its own. How orange wine is made, where it came from and what to drink it with.
Lists
The World's 100 Best Natural Wine Producers
Our curated list of the hundred producers who shaped the modern history of natural wine.
The World's 100 Best Natural Wines
A hundred bottles that changed how people think about what wine can be.
The world's best orange wines — a curated list
Skin-contact whites from our top 100 — Gravner, Radikon, Pheasant's Tears and more.
The world's best natural champagne — grower producers ranked
Grower champagne from our top 100 — Selosse, Bouchard, Prévost and more.
Systembolaget
Best red natural wines at Systembolaget 2026
An independent shortlist of red natural wines at Systembolaget — Loire to Etna, Gredos to Burgenland.
The best white natural wines at Systembolaget
An independent shortlist of white wines at Systembolaget from biodynamic, organic and low-intervention growers.
The best sparkling natural wines at Systembolaget
An independent shortlist of sparkling wines at Systembolaget — Corpinnat, biodynamic growers and serious low-intervention bottles.
The best rosé natural wines at Systembolaget
An independent shortlist of rosé at Systembolaget from biodynamic, organic and low-intervention growers — four bottles where rosé is a real flagship, not an afterthought.
Best orange natural wines at Systembolaget 2026
An independent shortlist of orange natural wines at Systembolaget — Radikon, Binner, Faller and more.
Bästa naturvinerna under 200 kr på Systembolaget 2026
En oberoende shortlist av naturvin under 200 kronor på Systembolaget — Burgenland till Swartland.