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This article analyses risk perceptions relating to the growing of grapes for “natural” wines, made without any synthetic chemicals and based on the principle of minimal intervention. This non-interventionist approach to grapes and winemaking entails significant risk, especially given contemporary climate change. The management of the risks inherent to this practice together with these accelerating changes lead winegrowers to invent actions and strategies which are part technical and part spiritual. They also encourage a mindset based on adaptation verging on resilience, encouraged by the positive value placed on ideas of freedom. Via this “ indirect active” stance, winegrowers learn to live with risk.