Noble Rot Issue 39 is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). The belief that great wines embody place has always been at the heart of Noble Rot.
Noble Rot Issue 38 is here. One of the few irksome things about fine wine culture – apart from its pretence, and its propensity for snobbery – is the sheer cost of getting through the front door. Whereas anyone wanting to explore the best in art, for example, has access to Kahlo and Caravaggio at their fingertips, few people will ever have the means to taste the world’s most fabled crus.
Noble Rot Issue 37 is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Whoever said young people in 2025 don’t drink wine probably hasn’t spent much time around young people — or good wine, for that matter. Yes, global alcohol consumption is down, and industrial brands are suffering losses.
Noble Rot Issue 36 is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). From the very first sip, dinner with this issue’s special guest, Ridley Scott, was another trademark Noble Rot interview that ran to more than several glasses and some unearthed little-known insights. Responsible for some of the greatest movies of all time – from Blade Runner and Thelma & Louise to Alien and Gladiator (the latter two of which we pay tribute to with this issue’s special dual covers by Gary Taxoli), Scott is also a wine lover who owns vineyards in Provence, and has a maverick perspective on everything from cooking the perfect scrambled eggs to how AI is changing the world.
Noble Rot Issue 35 is here. “Hang on a minute, that colour looks amazing…” says Gary Lineker, eyeing a 1934 Lopez de Heredia Viña Tondonia towards the end of another of Noble Rot’s trademark long lunch interviews. He picks up the glass of 90-year-old Rioja and begins inspecting it, using a white napkin as a background.
Noble Rot Issue 34 is here. It doesn’t take an ancient Greek philosopher to recognise that the more you learn about wine, the more you know you don’t know. This was recently reaffirmed to Noble Rot at a restaurant in Switzerland’s Valais, when presented with a gigantic carte des vins full of almost totally unrecognisable bottles. In our defence, the fact that the Swiss (quite rightfully) refuse to share their venerable vinos – exporting as little as 1% of their annual production – means that outsiders barely catch a glimpse of their world class Fendants, Syrahs and Petite Arvines.
Noble Rot Issue 33 is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Wine lovers have been swooning over Romanée-Conti for centuries. French Revolutionaries, struggling to realise the value of the vineyard without advertising its newly undesirable noble status, described it as “a balm for the elderly, the feeble and the disabled,” that will “restore life to the dying.”
Noble Rot Issue 32 is here. How can you not love a chef who says one of the reasons they gave up architecture was that they “didn’t like sitting in an office eating sandwiches and drinking coffee at a desk”? Talk about priorities.
Noble Rot Issue 31 (Ten Years of Noble Rot) is here. It’s been a stellar decade alright, which we toast in this, our 10th birthday issue, with a cast of sainted Rotters.
Noble Rot Issue 30 (Don’t sulphur fools). Are the Sulphur Wars – the exhausting ideological battle over the addition of SO₂ that has polarised the natural and traditionalist wine scenes – finally coming to an end?
Noble Rot Issue 29 (Blind Faith) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). A well-worn wine-trade legend involves a venerable merchant being asked when they last mistook Bordeaux for Burgundy. “Not since lunchtime” is their answer. Loved by some and reviled by many, the often-ignominious art of blind tasting – AKA trying to identify a wine without seeing the label – comes under the spotlight in the new issue of Noble Rot.
Noble Rot Issue 28 (Cosmic Chardonnay) is available on loremnotipsum.com. Welcome to a cosmic new collection of writing about wine, food and culture.
Noble Rot Issue 27 is here. Another cordial collection of writing about wine and food, fact and fiction, the quite serious and the not very serious at all. We present the definitive wine lover’s guide to truffles, with tips from Kermit Lynch, Clare Smyth, Brett Graham and Carlotta Rinaldi (whose interstellar Barolo is fêted by our raving truffle pigs on the cover).
Noble Rot Issue 26 is here. Readers suffering from chromophobia – the irrational fear of colour – look away now: Noble Rot’s fabulous new cover stars, motorcycling-mad artist Grayson Perry and psychotherapist Philippa Perry, are so bright they’re almost luminescent. In this issue Marina O’Loughlin interviews them over one of our signature long lunches, putting everyone from the Liberal Elite to Rylan to rights.
Noble Rot Issue 25 (Chianti not Chianti) is here, another cordial collection of writing about wine and food, fact and fiction, the quite serious and the not very serious at all. We escape to Tuscany between lockdowns to meet an exciting young generation of Chianti Not Chianti producers, including Montevertine and Tenuta di Carleone.
Noble Rot Issue 24 (Wine from another galaxy) is here and is dedicated to celebrating its publication, enlisting some top vinonauts, including natural wine-oracle Alice Feiring and Beastie Boy Mike Diamond, to tell us about one of their own wines from another galaxy: a.k.a one that changed their perception forever.
Noble Rot Issue 23 (If not now, when?) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Back in mid-March when Noble Rot restaurant temporarily closed due to Covid-19, it was questionable whether publishing a summer edition of Noble Rot would be in keeping with the mood of the times. But we all need reasons to be cheerful, even in the most challenging days, so issue 23 is a reaffirmation of our original mission statement: to celebrate wine and gastronomy.
Noble Rot Issue 22 (The Difficult Second Album) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). We spotlight the wines of Catalonia and Jurançon, as well as Burgundy’s often under-appreciated Aligoté.
Noble Rot Issue 21 (Liquid Memories) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). In the cork poppin’, gut bustin’, merry makin’ new issue of Noble Rot magazine we tell the story of how cult domaines Emidio Pepe and Valentini rewrote the reputation of Abruzzese wine.
Noble Rot Issue 20 (Back to life) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Issue 20 spotlights Tenerife and Portuguese wine. From island cover stars Envínate and Suetes del Marques, to the historic vineyards of Colares near Lisbon, we profile some of Europe’s most exciting winemakers.
Noble Rot Issue 19 (the Shrine to the Vine) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Issue 19 is featuring Brunello die Montalcino, Jancis Robinson and many more.
Noble Rot Issue 18 (the Return of the Wine with Attitude) is available now at LOREM (not Ipsum). Issue 18 is featuring Nigella Lawson, the Mosel Riesling, the Noble Rot's Greatest Television Cooks of all Time and an epic tour of Madrid’s restaurant and wine scene.
Noble Rot Issue 17 (Champagne Underground) is available now! The new instalment of Noble Rot is another righteous journey through the best in food and wine. In the cork poppin’, gut bustin’, merry makin’ new issue of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s favourite wine and food magazine...
Noble Rot Issue 16 is available now! The new instalment of Noble Rot is another righteous journey through the best in food and wine.