DRINK THE STORIES
Noble Rot Issue 41 is out now.
To celebrate, we've assembled a limited-edition six-bottle case featuring wines from the new issue – bottles that appear in its pages, and bring its stories to life.
Six wines. Three articles. One issue.
Each case contains a copy of the magazine and one bottle each of...
Craven Stellenbosch Pinot Gris 2023
Beyond the Pale, by Dan Keeling
Think Pinot Gris is a white wine? Think again. This pink-skinned grape can make a beautiful copper-coloured rosé when fermented like a red. In the hands of South Africa’s New School pioneers Craven, it becomes a wine of remarkable character and refreshment, combining fine, chalky tannins with succulent fruit and irresistible drinkability.
Faraone Cerasuolo d’Abruzzo ‘Le Vigne di Faraone’ 2024
Beyond the Pale, by Dan Keeling
Proof that some of Italy’s most compelling wines sit between categories. Deeply coloured and made from Montepulciano, this is a rosé that behaves like a light red: generous, savoury and endlessly versatile at the table. Cherry-stone bitterness and sweet, ripe tannins give it far more complexity than its modest price suggests.
Tetramythos Mavro Kalavrytino Rosé ‘Nature’ 2025
Beyond the Pale, by Dan Keeling
High in the mountains of the Peloponnese, Panagiotis Papagiannopoulos crafts some of Greece’s most compelling natural wines. Made from the rare Mavro Kalavrytino grape — a variety Tetramythos has helped rescue from the brink of extinction — this deeply coloured rosé combines vivid fruit, fine structure and remarkable freshness. A wine as distinctive as the landscape it comes from.
Filipa Pato ‘Nossa Calcário’ Branco 2022
The Vine Twitcher, by Dan Keeling
In Portugal’s Bairrada region, Filipa Pato and William Wouters have become leading champions of native grape varieties and low-intervention winemaking. ‘Nossa Calcário’ — “our limestone” — is pure Bical grown on chalky soils, distilled to its essence. Golden, saline and satin-textured, it combines precision and power in a way that rivals some of Burgundy’s most celebrated whites.
Niepoort Poeirinho Baga 2020
The Vine Twitcher, by Dan Keeling
Poeirinho is an old Bairrada name for Baga, Portugal’s most distinctive red grape. Drawn from biodynamically farmed old and very old vines, Dirk Niepoort’s benchmark expression combines fragrance, finesse and formidable structure. Elegant rather than powerful, it is only just beginning to reveal its full potential — a glimpse of Baga at its most refined.
Folias de Baco Uivo ‘Renegado’ 2024
Myths of the Douro, by Simon J Woolf
A wine that challenges almost every assumption about the Douro. Made from a century-old mixed vineyard and fermented from both red and white grapes, Renegado sits somewhere between a light red and a serious rosé. Bright and juicy, it is one of the most effortlessly drinkable wines in Portugal.
