Natural wine is not an appellation, a certification or a technique. It is an approach — farming without synthetic inputs, fermenting with the grape's own wild yeasts and adding nothing in the cellar. The movement has no official rules and no central body handing out scores. What it has is the producers themselves, and the collectors, sommeliers and restaurateurs who have followed them for decades.
This list is our curation of the hundred producers who shaped the modern history of natural wine. We prioritised three things: influence on the movement, consistency over time and genuine expression of terroir. Pierre Overnoy and Marcel Lapierre are here because they effectively invented modern natural wine. Joško Gravner because he reinvented white wine. Frank Cornelissen because he showed how far minimal intervention can be pushed.
What is not here: conventional prestige estates regardless of quality, and producers whose wines we could not verify. The list makes no claim to objectivity — there is no objective ranking in wine. It claims only to be honest.
Geographically France dominates, led by the Jura, Loire, Beaujolais and Rhône, but Italy, Georgia and Austria are strongly represented. Ten of the producers on the list work in Languedoc and Roussillon — the region we import from ourselves, and one that has gone from mass production to becoming one of natural wine's most dynamic areas.
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Arbois-Pupillin, Jura · France · Savagnin, Chardonnay, Poulsard
If natural wine has a starting point, this is it. Pierre Overnoy stopped adding sulphur back in the 1980s, inspired by the chemist Jules Chauvet's research into fermentation without additives. His Savagnin — vinified ouillé, meaning topped up rather than aged under a veil of yeast as Jura tradition dictates — proved that wines without sulphur could age for decades rather than months. Since 2001 the domaine has been run by Emmanuel Houillon, whom Overnoy took on as an apprentice and later named his successor.
Allemand began as a labourer for Robert Michel and built his own domaine by replanting abandoned terraces in Cornas when the appellation was at its lowest. His two cuvées — Chaillot and Reynard — are today counted among the finest expressions of Syrah in the world. The winemaking is minimal, with very low sulphur and great precision rather than dogma.
Gravner was a technically accomplished modernist until a 1997 trip to Georgia gave him an entirely new idea of what white wine could be. From 2001 he has vinified in qvevri — Georgian clay vessels buried in the ground — with long skin contact and no temperature control. His Ribolla Gialla is the single most important bottle in the history of modern orange wine.
Côtes du Jura · France · Chardonnay, Savagnin, Poulsard, Trousseau
Ganevat spent ten years in Burgundy before returning to the family domaine in Rotalier and making wines unlike anyone else in the Jura. His range is extreme — dozens of cuvées per vintage, many from individual parcels with vines planted by his grandfather. Low sulphur, slow élevage and a precision that has made him one of natural wine's most sought-after producers.
Avize, Champagne · France · Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
Anselme Selosse brought Burgundian thinking to Champagne and changed the region from within. Instead of blending away terroir, he worked with individual villages, low yields, barrel fermentation and oxidative élevage — a radical break from the houses' standardised style. Selosse is the single biggest reason grower champagne exists as a category today.
Founded by the American artist John Wurdeman and vigneron Gela Patalishvili in the heart of Kakheti. The project is as much about cultural preservation as wine — they have revived Georgian grape varieties that were on the verge of disappearing entirely. The wines are made in qvevri using a method that is eight thousand years old.
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Domaine des Miroirs / Kenjiro Kagami
Côtes du Jura · France · Chardonnay, Savagnin, Trousseau
Kenjiro Kagami came from Japan, worked with Ganevat and then established himself on his own parcels in the Jura. Production is tiny and the cuvées carry poetic names that reflect an aesthetic as much as a wine. The wines are extremely precise, mineral and virtually impossible to buy at list price.
Stanko Radikon returned in 1995 to his grandfather's method: long skin contact on Ribolla Gialla, no temperature control, no added sulphur. Together with Gravner he defined modern orange wine. Radikon also developed his own 500 ml and one-litre bottle formats, built on the idea that wine should be shared. His son Sasa has run the domaine since Stanko's death in 2016.
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Clos Rougeard (Foucault)
Saumur-Champigny, Loire · France · Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc
Brothers Charly and Nady Foucault ran Clos Rougeard at a time when Cabernet Franc from the Loire was considered simple wine. They worked without chemicals, fermented spontaneously, aged in old barrels and made wines that showed Saumur-Champigny could stand alongside Bordeaux and Burgundy. Le Bourg and Les Poyeux are reference wines for the grape.
Foillard is one of four Beaujolais producers — with Lapierre, Thévenet and Breton — who turned their backs on the region's industrial nouveau production in the 1980s. All four were influenced by Jules Chauvet and began farming organically, harvesting late and fermenting without added yeast or sulphur. The group is still known as the Gang of Four.
One of the central figures in the rebirth of Georgian natural wine. He works with Tsitska and Tsolikouri in qvevri and has been decisive in connecting the Georgian tradition with the European natural wine movement.
The most influential of the Gang of Four. Lapierre took Jules Chauvet's ideas and put them into practice, and his Morgon became the template for what a natural Beaujolais could be. His son Mathieu has run the domaine since 2010.
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Frank Cornelissen
Etna Nord, Sicilien · Italy · Nerello Mascalese
The Belgian who moved to the northern slope of Etna and pushes minimal intervention further than almost anyone. Magma, his top cuvée of Nerello Mascalese from old vines high on the volcano, is one of natural wine's most debated wines.
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Cédric Bouchard / Roses de Jeanne
Aube, Champagne · France · Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
Bouchard's philosophy is uncompromising: one parcel, one variety, one vintage — never blends. Production is minimal and the wines have a purity and lightness that stands in sharp contrast to Champagne's house style.
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Nicolas Joly
Savennières, Loire · France · Chenin Blanc
Joly is the wine world's most vocal ambassador for biodynamics and the driving force behind Return to Terroir. Coulée de Serrant is one of few French appellations consisting of a single vineyard, and his Chenin Blanc from there divides opinion but leaves no one indifferent.
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Yvon Métras
Fleurie, Beaujolais · France · Gamay
A cult producer working with whole clusters, spontaneous fermentation and near-zero sulphur. Métras' wines are among the hardest to find in all of Beaujolais and have a transparency and energy few come close to.
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Philippe Bornard
Arbois-Pupillin, Jura · France · Poulsard, Trousseau, Chardonnay
Neighbour and close friend of Pierre Overnoy, with the same uncompromising stance on sulphur. Bornard's Poulsard — pale, perfumed and electric — is among the Jura's most characterful red wines.
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Bénédicte & Stéphane Tissot
Montigny-lès-Arsures, Arbois, Jura · France · Trousseau, Chardonnay, Poulsard
Biodynamic farming across an unusually broad range, from traditional vin jaune under flor to modern ouillé wines and sparkling. Tissot is the producer who best shows the full breadth of the Jura.
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Renaud Bruyère & Adeline Houillon
Arbois-Pupillin, Jura · France · Ploussard, Chardonnay, Savagnin, Trousseau
Adeline Houillon is Emmanuel Houillon's sister, and the domaine stands in direct line from the Overnoy tradition. Small volumes, no added sulphur and a precision that has made them one of the Jura's most sought-after young producers.
Pantaleoni made La Stoppa one of Italy's most important natural wine addresses. Ageno — Malvasia with long skin contact — is one of the orange wines that defined the category outside Friuli.
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Jérôme Prévost / La Closerie
Gueux, Montagne de Reims, Champagne · France · Pinot Meunier, Pinot Gris, Chardonnay
Prévost got his start with help from Anselme Selosse and makes champagne from almost entirely Pinot Meunier grown in a single parcel in Gueux. The wines are textured, oxidative and entirely personal.
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Château Rayas
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Rhône · France · Grenache
Rayas stands outside the natural wine movement's rhetoric but has always worked accordingly: pure Grenache on sandy soil, no new oak, minimal intervention. The wines have an ethereal lightness no one else in the appellation comes near.
An extremely traditional, extremely private family domaine that declassifies most of its production and bottles only what it stands behind. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo from Valentini is one of Italy's most legendary white wines.
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Dard & Ribo
Saint-Joseph / Crozes-Hermitage, Rhône · France · Syrah, Marsanne, Roussanne
René-Jean Dard and François Ribo were natural wine pioneers in the northern Rhône long before there was a movement to belong to. Their Syrah is light, perfumed and juicy — the opposite of the region's extracted style.
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Jean-Pierre Robinot
Chahaignes, Jasnières / Coteaux du Loir, Loire · France · Chenin Blanc, Pineau d'Aunis
Robinot ran one of Paris's first natural wine bars before becoming a vigneron in the Loire. His Chenin Blanc and Pineau d'Aunis are made uncompromisingly without sulphur and have a wildness that mirrors the man behind them.
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Hervé Souhaut / Romaneaux-Destezet
Ardèche · France · Syrah, Viognier
Souhaut makes Syrah from granite soils in the Ardèche using whole clusters and minimal intervention. The wines are light, peppery and transparent — one of the clearest examples of how Syrah can taste without extraction.
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Marie-Noëlle Ledru
Ambonnay, Champagne · France · Pinot Noir
Ledru worked alone in Ambonnay for decades, making grower champagne from Pinot Noir with very low dosage. The wines are taut, mineral and among the purest interpretations of the grand cru village.
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Domaine Huet
Vouvray, Loire · France · Chenin Blanc
Biodynamic since 1990 and a reference point for Chenin Blanc in every style — dry, off-dry, sweet and sparkling. Le Mont, Le Haut-Lieu and Clos du Bourg show how three parcels in the same appellation can give entirely different wines.
The fourth of the Gang of Four, known as P'tit Max. Breton's Morgon is among the most immediately charming natural wines from Beaujolais — juicy, light and made to be drunk.
Bea makes Sagrantino with long maceration, no filtration and several years of élevage before release. The wines are structured and long-lived, and have made Montefalco a natural wine destination.
31–100
Rank
Change
Name
Region
Country
Grapes
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Jean Macle
Château-Chalon, Jura
France
Savagnin
32
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Mark Angeli / Ferme de la Sansonnière
Anjou / Saumur, Loire
France
Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc
33
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Laherte Frères
Chavot, Champagne
France
Meunier, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
34
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Jean-Claude Lapalu
Saint-Etienne-la-Varenne, Beaujolais
France
Gamay
35
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Movia
Brda, Slovenien
Slovenia
Rebula, Pinot Noir, Merlot
36
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Jacques Lassaigne / Emmanuel Lassaigne
Montgueux, Aube, Champagne
France
Chardonnay
37
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Michel Gahier
Montigny-les-Arsures, Jura
France
Trousseau, Melon à Queue Rouge
38
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Axel Prüfer / Le Temps des Cerises
Le Bousquet-d'Orb, Haut-Languedoc, Hérault
France
Grenache, Cinsault, Carignan, Aramon, Chardonnay
39
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Emmanuel Brochet
Villers-Aux-Noeuds, Montagne de Reims, Champagne
France
Pinot Meunier, Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
40
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Pierre Frick
Pfaffenheim, Alsace
France
Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer
41
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Gabrio Bini / Serragghia
Pantelleria, Sicilien
Italy
Zibibbo (Muscat of Alexandria), Nero d'Avola
42
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L'Octavin / Alice Bouvot
Arbois, Jura
France
Poulsard, Chardonnay, Savagnin
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Franz Strohmeier
Weststeiermark, Österrike
Austria
Blauer Wildbacher (Schilcher)
44
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Patrick Bouju / La Bohème
Saint-Georges-sur-Allier, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne
France
Pinot Noir, Gamay, Chardonnay
45
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Domaine Gauby / Gérard & Lionel Gauby
Calce, Roussillon
France
Grenache, Carignan, Grenache Blanc, Macabeu, Muscat
Co-plantation: Riesling, Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminer, Auxerrois, Pinot Noir, Muscat
100
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François Pinon
Vernou-sur-Brenne, Vouvray
France
Chenin Blanc
More producers worth knowing (ranks 101-116)
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Sylvain Pataille
Marsannay, Bourgogne
France
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay, Aligoté
102
NEW
Catherine & Pierre Breton
Bourgueil, Loire
France
Cabernet Franc, Chenin Blanc
103
NEW
Alice & Olivier De Moor
Chablis, Bourgogne
France
Chardonnay, Aligoté
104
NEW
Olivier Cousin
Martigné-Briand, Anjou, Loire
France
Cabernet Franc, Grolleau, Chenin Blanc
105
NEW
Thierry Puzelat / Clos du Tue-Boeuf
Les Montils, Touraine, Loire
France
Gamay, Pineau d'Aunis, Menu Pineau, Sauvignon Blanc
106
NEW
Agnès & René Mosse
Anjou, Loire
France
Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Gamay
107
NEW
Frédéric Cossard / Domaine de Chassorney
Saint-Romain, Bourgogne
France
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
108
NEW
David Léclapart
Trépail, Champagne
France
Chardonnay, Pinot Noir
109
NEW
Vouette et Sorbée / Bertrand Gautherot
Buxières-sur-Arce, Aube, Champagne
France
Pinot Noir, Chardonnay
110
NEW
Paolo Vodopivec
Carso, Friuli Venezia Giulia
Italy
Vitovska
111
NEW
Stefano Bellotti / Cascina degli Ulivi
Novi Ligure, Piemonte
Italy
Cortese, Barbera, Dolcetto
112
NEW
COS
Vittoria, Sicilien
Italy
Frappato, Nero d'Avola, Grecanico
113
NEW
Sepp Muster
Südsteiermark, Österrike
Austria
Sauvignon Blanc, Morillon (Chardonnay), Zweigelt
114
NEW
Testalonga / Craig Hawkins
Swartland, Sydafrika
South Africa
Chenin Blanc, Cinsault, Syrah
115
NEW
Louis-Antoine Luyt
Itata & Maule, Chile
Chile
País, Carignan, Cinsault
116
NEW
Iago Bitarishvili
Kvemo Kartli, Georgien
Georgia
Chinuri
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Left the list 12 October 2026: Gérard Gauby (duplicate of Domaine Gauby)
Languedoc and Roussillon among the world's best
Ten of the producers on this list work in Languedoc and Roussillon. It is the same landscape — the same schist hills in Faugères, the same altitude sites in the Haute Vallée de l'Orb — that the wines we import ourselves come from.
Two connections are especially direct. Axel Prüfer in Le Bousquet-d'Orb (#38) is a neighbour of both Hors Saison and Le Bouc à Trois Pattes, and helped Olga Ivanova and Antoine Monod get started when they founded Hors Saison in 2021. Didier Barral in Faugères (#71) taught Yannick Pelletier, whose domaine sits on the border between Saint-Chinian and Faugères.
#38 Axel Prüfer / Le Temps des Cerises — Le Bousquet-d'Orb, Haut-Languedoc, Hérault
