On the bar counter were copies of a small but thick magazine, also called Noble Rot, adorned with a bright hipster-cartoon cover. Out of curiosity, I bought one—and, as sometimes happens in ...

Leather Storrs has come home, in a manner of speaking: He's returned exclusively to the kitchen of Noble Rot, the restaurant that won him a devoted following, but has moved it into the space where ...

“Noble rot” is just a nickname for Botrytis cinerea, a humidity-loving fruit fungus that causes grapes to shrivel and dehydrate, concentrating flavors. It sounds ugly (and grapes with botrytis ...

I am an enormous fan of the Noble Rot enterprise; the magazine, the attitude to wine, even the restaurant – I have had a couple of memorable meals there over the last few years. Sadly ...

This cluster of naturally white-skinned grapes shows initial symptoms of "noble rot" infection, as the white grape berries turn pink. For hundreds of years, the fungus Botrytis cinerea has been key to ...

One of the icons of the wine lover is ”noble rot,” an oxymoronic term referring to a peculiarity of nature that results in the world`s greatest sweet white wines. Wines affected by noble rot ...

Also known by its scientific name, Botrytis cinerea, noble rot is a beneficial mold that grows on ripe wine grapes in the vineyard under specific climatic conditions. The mold dehydrates the grapes, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 2012, before I became a wine importer and restaurateur, I visited Burgundy with my dad. I’d been ...