Eric Kamm
Alsace, Dambach-la-Ville, France
 

Domaine Kamm has been passed down father to son since 1905, in Dambach-la-Ville, a fortified medieval village on the Alsace wine route between Barr and Sélestat.
 

Eric is the third generation to run it. His grandfather kept a mixed farm, and it was his father Jean-Louis who began bottling and selling the harvest under the family name back in the 1970s. Eric took over in 2005 and pushed the domaine further, converting the 6.5 hectares of granite vineyards to organic farming and steering the estate firmly toward natural wine, which now makes up around 70% of what he sells.
 

His approach in the vineyard is instinctive rather than rulebound: he ploughs once a year to let the soil breathe, skips the cover crops many neighbours rely on, and trusts feel and observation over fixed protocol. "I've never liked anything protocol," he's said, comparing it to the way he cooks.
 

Eric works all the classic Alsace grapes, Riesling, Gewurztraminer, Sylvaner, Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir and Muscat, along with a parcel in the Frankstein Grand Cru, and designs his own labels himself, playful and a little irreverent, always built around the family's stylised "K".