Lists of Great Wineries
It seems that California (mostly) has started a trend where wine is made with slick machines and becomes manipulated and altered so much that the result tastes like it could have come from anywhere. Now, the disease has spread all over the world. Terroir is disappearing and it's up to the consumers to become educated and say 'no' to dumbed down wine. In a world where wine has become big business and wine is being made to suit certain critics' tastes so that high scores will translate into big bucks, I'm looking for small artisan wine makers and more naturally or traditionally made wines. It's not so easy to find which wineries are using traditional and natural methods these days, but we're trying. If you have any suggestions please email us or hit the Forum page and let us know.
Here is an ever-evolving list of wine makers we know (or at least think) are making traditional and natural style wines.
Wine Today
Wine From the U.S.
Frog's Leap
Grgich
Ridge
Edmunds St. John
Copain Wine Cellars
Bonny Doon
Fetzer
Coturri
Eyrie
Italy
Sagrantino:
Napolini
Antonelli
Barolo/Barbaresco:
Montelfaco
La Morra
Conterno
Castiglione Falleto
Mascarello
Giacosa
Rinaldi
Cappellano
Livia Fontana
Cavallotto
Serralunga
Brunello:
Biondi
Santi
Montesecondo
Massa Vecchia
Olena
Tre Venezi:
Radikon
Weingut Nusserhof
La Biancara
France
Burgundy:
Faiveley
Jadot
Pacalet
Bordeaux:
Chateau Le Puy
Cote de Francs
Loire:
Breton
Clos Rougeard
Clos Roche Blanche
Pineau d'Annis
Serrant
Rhone:
Jean-Louis Gerard
Clapes
Allemand
Dard et Ribo
Herve Souhant
Chave
Spain
Australia
Lopez de Heredia
Castagna