Noble Rot #40 - The Wine Traveller's Guide to Getting It Right

Noble Rot #40 - The Wine Traveller's Guide to Getting It Right

Awkward barrel samples. Weary vignerons. Fully booked hotels. Missed tables. The wine traveller's path is rarely lined with sunshine and perfectly chilled glasses. 

Which is why Issue 40 of Noble Rot is about good timing — and giving yourself a fighting chance. 

In The Wine Traveller's Guide to Getting It Right, our man in New York, Levi Dalton, explains when not to visit wine regions, revealing how arriving at the wrong moment can distort your experience of young wines and quietly sabotage tastings before you realise what's happening. He decodes the rhythms of the cellar, argues for visiting Burgundy in November rather than June ("a rookie mistake"), and shares insider intelligence — from Santorini's grape harvest colliding disastrously with peak tourist season, to the joys of Piemonte's porcini season. Along the way, top winemakers, restaurateurs and critics reveal their favourite local places to eat and drink.

About Noble Rot:

Noble Rot started out as a magazine about wine, food and the creative arts in 2013, before opening restaurants in Bloomsbury in 2015, Soho in 2020 and Mayfair in 2023.