Noble Rot, Issue 17 – Champagne Underground
Noble Rot magazine attempts to join the dots between wine, music and food. We want to tell stories and inspire people to enjoy what they drink, eat and listen to. We is Mark Andrew and Dan Keeling and we started Noble Rot with the intention of giving young and/or alternative writers a platform to discuss contemporary culture from a fresh perspective.
In this issue:
In the cork poppin’, gut bustin’, merry makin’ new issue of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un’s favourite wine and food magazine…
• …Caitlin Moran tells us ‘How Champagne Changed My Life’
• …we meet Richard Russell, the A&R man who shaped XL Recordings, home of Adele, Radiohead, Dizzee Rascal, The Prodigy et al
• …our roving wine critic and revolutionary Henrietta Handpump reports back from Bordeaux 2017 en primeur
• …Andrew Jefford argues there are other things in life than being geeky about wine (Say wha?)
• …we feature Noble Rot’s 10 Best Food Scenes on Film
• …we take a ‘quick snifter’ with cult Welsh illustrator and Hunter S Thompson collaborator Ralph Steadman
• …feature stories about Cornas, Greece’s Xinomavro, Restaurant Snakes & Ladders, Vin de Seyssuel, Mont Blanc and reviews and musings from Marina O’Loughlin, Diana Henry, Russell Norman, Henry Harris, Jon Bonné, Georges Reynolds, Nina Caplin and John Niven, among much more