Atop the Tre Stelle cru, the Sobrino brothers farm organically (uncertified), ferment with native yeasts and add sulfites sparingly for a low-intervention, natural Barbaresco.
Tip: Native-yeast Barbaresco made with the lightest hand; ask the family to compare Tre Stelle and Rio Sordo at the cellar.
Address: Strada Rio Sordo 58, loc. Tre Stelle, 12050 Barbaresco, Italy, Piedmont
Nadia Verrua makes nothing-added natural wine from old-vine Grignolino, Barbera and the rare Ruche, fermenting with wild yeasts in a low-intervention style.
Tip: Among Piedmont's purest natural-wine addresses; the old-vine Grignolino is the cult bottle to seek out.
Punset uses no animal-derived products anywhere in its growing or cellar cycle, so its certified-organic Barbaresco, Barbera and Arneis are vegan-friendly throughout the range.
Tip: The whole Punset range is vegan-friendly; the Neh! Langhe Rosso is the easy everyday introduction.
From the certified-organic Vajra estate, the ancestral-method Claré J.C. Nebbiolo is a low-sulfite, lightly frizzante red revived from a 1606 recipe, fermented spontaneously with minimal added sulfur.
Tip: The Claré J.C. is a barely-sparkling, low-sulfite Nebbiolo; serve it cold like a chillable light red.
Principiano works in a low-intervention, low-sulfite natural style, with whole-cluster ferments and minimal added sulfur across his Dolcetto, Barbera and Barolo range.
Tip: The Dolcetto Sant'Anna is bottled with no added sulfites; ask for it to taste the no-added-sulfur end of the range.
Enrico Rivetto farms the Lirano hill biodynamically, fully organic from 2009 and Demeter-certified in 2016, the first estate in the Barolo and Barbaresco zones to gain Demeter status.
Tip: The Lirano biodynamic garden is the only Demeter-certified estate in the Barolo zone; ask to walk the polyculture plots between the vines.
Ferdinando Principiano has farmed organically and biodynamically without certification since 2004, using natural preparations and avoiding synthetic chemicals across his Monforte vineyards.
Tip: This is practising biodynamics, not Demeter-certified; the whole-cluster, low-sulfite Barolo Ravera shows the savoury house style.
