Noble Rot Magazine Issue 38 offers a fresh take on fine wine, making top-quality bottles easier to discover and enjoy without breaking the bank. This issue features favorite underrated wines from experts, highlighting unique choices from regions like Rueda, Muscadet, Itata Valley, and Gers. It’s a celebration of simple pleasures and new possibilities in wine tasting.

Elsewhere in Noble Rot 38’s celebration of everyday miracles…

Felicity Cloake lauds salt as the most important element in good cooking, Simon Hopkinson revels in the perfection of eggs and Stephen Harris asks why many diners consider drinking anything other than filtered tap water to be a pretentious waste of time.

Dan Keeling profiles the Basque Country’s Txakoli and meets the growers reinvigorating Chianti Classico and Rioja, Alice Feiring celebrates house wine, Slutty Cheff reveals her homely delights and The Yellow Bittern’s Hugh Corcoran hails a plate of home-grown green beans dressed in butter as the perfect lunch.

We raise a glass to the art of the leisurely lunch in ‘Wine, Dine, Recline, Repeat’. Featuring Fergus and Margot Henderson, Philippa Perry, Gary Lineker and a cast of other Rotters, it’s the next best thing to being able to go AWOL for a day of hedonistic pleasures.

We hear about Le Bernardin NYC’s Eric Ripert’s Greatest Meal, Keira Knightley tells us about her shellfish antidote to Fashion Week and we feature stories about Bangkok’s burgeoning wine scene and German Chardonnay, in addition to offering a gastronomic guide to the Basque Country, among much more.

Cover by Jose Mendez.