This edition contains the following:

INTERVIEWS, ESSAYS & FEATURES

An interview with the first (and only!) natural winemaker in Finland; an essay by Brooklyn wine professional Alex Alan on how post-2020 New York restaurant culture might look; a long, powerful interview with Lauren Friel of Rebel Rebel (Boston) on why natural wine is definitely political and what she’s doing about it; a story about one of our boutique magazine stockists in Stockholm who are making sure that print isn’t dead; the story behind the iconic “Vine Wine Sign”; and a look at how Canada’s hottest new natural winery leverages branding; a feature on Joy Kull aka La Villana (Lazio, Italy); and a photo essay by Twin Island Cider (British Columbia) who documents their own clay harvesting and vessel making process.

THE MAKING OF PIPETTE

This section includes interviews with our editor/publisher Rachel Signer and our layout designer Emma Dragovic, as well as a visual and written look at how a magazine is printed, and why we do it in Germany.

RECIPES FROM NATURAL WINEMAKERS

For Issue 9, we reached out to a few natural winemakers we wish we could visit to see what they’ve been cooking. Recipes include contributions from La Stoppa (Italy); MicroBio Wines (Spain); Martha Stoumen (U.S.); Gut Oggau (Austria); and Alessandro Viola (Sicily).

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About

Pipette Magazine is an independent print magazine about natural wines, 3x/year, distributed globally. 

The magazine highlights small producers of natural wine, and the communities around them, through an edgy, contemporary perspective. We publish top quality, original journalism alongside unique illustration and photography. 

Editor & Publisher

Rachel Signer has been writing about the culture of natural wine for several years. Her work appears in Vogue.com, Vice MUNCHIES, PUNCH, Wine Enthusiast, Wine & Spirits Magazine, Sprudge Wine, and elsewhere. After living in New York for many years, she is now based in Australia with frequent travel to Europe. 

CHIANTI NOT CHIANTI

 - Issue 25 Published 4th March 2021

Introducing Noble Rot 25, another cordial collection of writing about wine and food, fact and fiction, the quite serious and the not very serious at all.

In this issue we…

…we escape to Tuscany between lockdowns to meet an exciting young generation of Chianti Not Chianti producers, including Montevertine and Tenuta di Carleone.

…welcome Edinburgh’s master of dark comedy, and author of heroin-spiked classic Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh. He tells us how Covid restaurant closures have forced him to improve his culinary skills, and given him a new perspective on less-recreational uses for kitchen foil.

…interview DJ Gilles Peterson and Brawn chef Ed Wilson about the joy of Romanée Conti, and their recent sensory collaborations.

…hear about Margot Henderson’s ‘Greatest Ever Meal’ at Paris’ Le Baratin.

…feature queen of the interviewers and author of film sensation An Education, Lynn Barber, writing on discovering posh food and restaurants.

…ask a few of our sagest wino chums what they would buy to start a cellar for less than £500?

Elsewhere in this issue we profile Santorini and Tuscany’s sweet Vinsanto/ Vin Santo wines; remember Lulu Peyraud of Bandol’s Domaine Tempier; La Fromagerie’s Patricia Michelson gives us her ultimate cheesecake recipe; and William Kelley looks at the future of Burgundy in a time of climate change. Plus other stories and musings from Simon Hopkinson, Marina O’Loughlin, John Niven, Stephen Harris, Alice Feiring, Kate Spicer, Jordan Michelman, Rachel Roddy, Russell Norman and George Reynolds.

Pipette – Issue 2 (Reprint)

After much demand, Issue 2 was reprinted in late January or early February 2021.

Issue 2 contains: an interview with natural wine journalist Alice Feiring; an interview with Athenaïs de Béru, winemaker in Chablis; an interview with Montréal wine importer Vanya Filipovic; features on the following winemakers: Denavolo (Emilia-Romagna); St. Reginald Parish (Oregon); Slovenian natural wine; La Perdida (Galicia); Lapati Wines (Republic of Georgia); Nusserhof (Tyrol); and a personal essay about Costadilà wines’ founder Ernesto Cattel and an interview with Fleur Godart, natural wine distributor in Paris.

Pipette – Issue 8

Featured in Issue 8: City guides to Melbourne and Sydney; a long, fascinating interview with Austrian winemaking iconoclast Christian Tschida; a “day in the life” during harvest at Abruzzo winery Lammidia; a personal account of receiving a natural wine delivery by boat in Copenhagen; the story behind Australian winemaker Jordy Kay’s foray into compostable plastic wrap; the story of Jauma Wines’ new farm and yoga studio, also in Australia; a profile on Anders Frederik Steen and Anne Bruun Blauert; the story of Maria and Alex Koppitsch’s natural winery in the Burgenland; an in-depth article about how importers are considering labor ethics and transparency, and a poem for natural wine lovers.

Die wunderbare Leichtigkeit des Weins

Pipette – Issue 7

Featured in Issue 7: The story of Frank Cornelissen's favorite local bar; an interview with one of Paris' quirkiest wine bar proprietors, Morgane Fleury of Fleury Champagne; an interview with American winemaker Abe Schoener about rehabilitating an untended Mission grape vineyard near Los Angeles; An interview with Ben Walgate of Tillingham Wines, UK; A feature on the bar and distillery Mezcaloteca, in Oaxaca City; Photo essay on Marsala low-intervention winemakers; An essay on inclusion of BIPOC in the U.S. natural wine scene; profiles of Milan Nestarec (Czech Republic); Marto Wines (Germany); Alessandro Viola, Sicily; Salvo Foti, Sicily; and Floral Terranes, a regenerative cider and natural wine project in suburban New York.

This issue contains: long-form features on Commune of Buttons (Australia); Naboso (Slovakia); Trossen (Germany); and Maloof Wines (Oregon). As well, it holds an essay on natural wine culture in the U.S.; the stories behind June Bar; Loup Bar; and Lane Harlan's hospitality work in Baltimore; a personal essay by Julia Sherman about making natural verjus in California; an interview with comedian/winemaker Eric Wareheim; and city guides to Los Angeles and Paris. 

In February 2020, released Issue 5, which features 96 pages of original journalism about natural wines alongside photography and artwork, with a special guest designer!

Stories in Issue 3 highlight Loire Valley winemaker François Saint-Lô; the Burgenland’s Claus Preisinger; an in-depth story on cult French winemaker Daniel Sage; political and travel essays; an interview with Southold Farm + Cellar after their first vintage in Texas; and so much more (we can’t give it all away!). The articles are accompanied by original, professional photography and artwork.