Noble Rot #40
170 x 230 mm, 116 pages
London, UK
Editors: Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew
Art director: Dan Keeling
Design: All Purpose Studio
From the people behind the eponymous London wine bar and restaurants comes the magazine that started it all. After 10 years and 40 print issues, Noble Rot is arguably still the indie wine magazine, rewriting the rules of wine coverage.
NR’s 40th issue explores how to ‘get it right’ as a wine tourist, with tips on navigating bad wine lists, odd barrel tastings, and poorly timed vineyard visits. Inside, Levi Dalton advises on the best and worst times to visit popular wine regions; Marina O’Laughlin heads to Fallow to meet its social media savvy founders and discovers a new love for Greek food and wine on the island of Sifnos; and, in a charmingly illustrated guide, acclaimed winemakers, restaurateurs and critics reveal their favourite places to dine and the events that bring these wine regions to life.
Elsewhere, a special guest–Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker—visits the NR team in Mayfair; abandoning his decision not to drink, he reflects on the relationship between memory, artistry and alcohol. Meanwhile, Jesse Armstrong, writer and mastermind behind the acclaimed TV series ‘Succession’, dreams of cheese—reminiscing on a brief entrepreneurial streak during a year abroad in Massachusetts, stacking ‘cheddar’ at campus parties and discovering the true meaning of wealth in a ‘Jack-O’ brie sandwich.
On the Podcast:
Editor Dan Keeling discusses the relationship between magazine and wine bar on the magCulture Podcast episode 27.
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