Noble Rot #41 2026

Noble Rot returns with its most far-reaching issue to
date: a celebration of wine, food, travel and the pleasures of getting
gloriously lost. Issue 41, Beyond the Pale, journeys from Portugal to Georgia, Germanyand Greece; from Afghanistan via New York City to Los Angeles and California; from Spain’s Gredos Mountains to Hokkaido, Gloucestershire and Highbury Corner.

At its heart lies the belief that wine is never simply a drink, but a way of
understanding places, people and cultures through what they grow, ferment and
cook. Among the issue’s featured guests, Lily Allen returns to
Noble Rot 13 years after first appearing in Issue 3’s ‘Too Cool for Wine
School’, reflecting on hosting friends in ‘My Greatest Meal’. Meanwhile,
Contributing Editor Marina O’Loughlin joins actor, comedian and
director Aziz Ansari for a long lunch at London’s Otto’s,
where conversation moves between natural wine, filmmaking and leaving behind
online life. Microbiome pioneer Tim Spector rounds out the
issue’s contributors over dinner at Trullo, arguing for fermentation and
pleasure in an age increasingly suspicious of both.