*PRE-ARRIVAL* NOBLE ROT ISSUE 42 // WINE JOURNAL
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*Estimated Arrival | October 28th
Issue 42 - And the Winner Is…
Published 23rd of October 2026
In this issue...
Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley join us for dinner at Noble Rot Mayfair. Colman recalls a Greek rooftop, a shitload of mai tais and singing till four in the morning when Buckley was due on set at six. Buckley tells us oysters and chips with a dirty martini would be her death-row meal.
Dan Keeling spends two days eating and drinking his way round David Silva’s favourite restaurants and bars in Madrid. The World Cup winner explains how a bottle of Tenerife red led him to buy vines in Gran Canaria – and why seven years in wine have brought him more friends than 20 in football.
In ‘My Most Extraordinary Meal’, Jancis Robinson recalls a 66-wine marathon at Château d’Yquem co-hosted by wine fraudster Hardy Rodenstock. Giles Coren, meanwhile, remembers Michael Winner as the patron saint of restaurant critics: the man who took on the taxman and won, and terrified British restaurateurs into raising their standards.
We’ve also launched the first Noble Rot Restaurant Awards, voted for by 117 people whose taste we trust. After years of picking holes in everyone else’s awards, it seemed only fair to let everyone pick holes in ours. Please don’t write in.
Plus: Henry Harris on Lyonnais food; Marina O’Loughlin at Paris’s Bistrot Paul Bert; Jeremy King on being a good guest; Levi Dalton following Burgundians making wine from Oregon to Japan; and Robert Walters on Michelin Grapes classifying Burgundy.
Add Mallorcan and Azorean wines, Sweetings, the making of Keller’s G-Max and the Georgian-era legend of the ‘Three-Bottle Man’, and there’s plenty to get your teeth into.
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WINE DELIVERY WITHIN THE CINCINNATI AREA
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DELIVERY ZONE 1 ( FREE DELIVERY OVER $150 OTHERWISE $10 ) :
45111 - 45147 - 45174 - 45202 - 45203 - 45204 - 45205 - 45206 - 45207 - 45208 - 45209 - 45211 - 45212 - 45213 - 45214 - 45215 - 45216 - 45217 - 45218 - 45219 - 45220 - 45221 - 45223 - 45224 -45225 - 45226 - 45227 - 45229 - 45231 - 45232 - 45236 - 45237 - 45238 - 45239 - 45241 - 45242 - 45243 - 45244
DELIVERY ZONE 2 ( $10 DELIVERY ) :
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