Noble Rot – Issue 37

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. But from the day some 12 years ago that we published the first issue of Noble Rot we’ve been riding a wave of profound changes sweeping the world of artisanal wine, capturing the imagination of more budding winos than ever.

Today, there’s nothing more satisfying than hearing our twenty-something sommeliers, customers and readers talk passionately about their love of wine, or witnessing the growth of a thriving bar à vinsscene everywhere from Melbourne to Manchester. In reality, as Jon Bonné outlines in our 37th instalment, our beautiful wine culture isn’t so much waning in popularity as in better shape than ever.

The Noble Rot magazine is published quarterly and the home of exciting wine and food writing. Since its launch in February 2013 Noble Rot has seen chefs Fergus Henderson, Valentine Warner and José Pizarro rubbing shoulders with artists like LCD Soundsystem, Lily Allen and David Shrigley, blurring the boundaries between gastronomy and the creative arts. Contributors include cult Scottish author John Niven, eRobert Parker’s Neal Martin, The River Café’s Emily O’Hare, Jamie Goode, Richard Hemming and Skint Records’ Damian Harris. Noble Rot was founded by two friends, Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew, who met through a shared love of wine, design and independent magazines whilst working next door to each other on Kensington High Street. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised £11,600 of funding in Autumn 2013, Noble Rot is continuing to expand at a considerable rate. The magazine is based in London, and published quarterly.

Features: Noble Rot – Issue 37

• we have dinner with Benedict Cumberbatch with Curnonsky’s Five Greatest Whites (Château-Chalon, Château-Grillet, Château d’Yquem, Coulée de Serrant, and Montrachet). The problem is that he only really likes drinking red.
• Irvine Welsh reviews an eclectic selection of wines, from La Mission Haut-Brion (“This one has the moves!”) to Mateus Rosé (“In its iconic flask-shaped bottle, smooth shoulders tapering from a long neck into that cerise dress, is this tipple as seductive as ever? You bet!”).
• Kwame Onwuachi travels to Jamaica to uncover the origins of jerk, and Slutty Cheff visits an abattoir to watch a cow being killed.
• Levi Dalton profiles Domaine Dujac founder Jacques Seysses (who besides making legendary Burgundies mentored a who’s who of other vignerons), and Alice Feiring meets Josimar Yacuta Verduzco, an illegal Mexican immigrant who joined the French foreign legion before finding his métier making Cornas.
• Plus: we shine a spotlight on Jura Ploussard, Cahors, Beaujolais, F.T. Marinetti’s 1932 Futurist Cookbook, wine memes, XL Recordings’ co-owner Martin Millsand Spain’s Camino de Santiago pilgrimage reimagined as a wine tour, among much more.