About

:: A NOBLE EXPERIENCE ::

Noble Rot events merge wines and winemakers, spirits and tastemakers with chefs, supper clubs, technology, art and music; augmented by improvised and witty discourse.

 

The Noble Rot is a “traveling wine saloon” that produces  experiential events and collaborations with wine, spirits and food taking center stage.

 

 

“Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatbsy Jonny at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.” – The Great Gatsby.

 :: YOUR NOBLE HOST ::

Jonathan Cristaldi is a wine and food evangelist who spent his 20s going by the alias, “Jonny Cigar”. Now in his 30s, a journey of self-discovery and education in Napa during the 2011 harvest has steered Jonathan on a vinous path: to lead the people into a wine and food promised land. Jonathan is your Noble Host. He writes about wine and wine-minded people on Winetology.com as hosts and produces a radio podcast series called Noble Rot Talks. Jonathan was dubbed a new “Wine Prophet” of New York City by Time Out New York. And that’s about as close as he’ll ever be to winning a TONY.

:: INSPIRED ::

I love wine, but didn’t love the kind of wine tastings, classes and large-scale consumer events that I had attended where the wines often took a backseat to a kind of wine-world chaos and ‘events for the sake of events’ mentality. The Noble Rot was imagined to break that mold and to foster an atmosphere around the tasting and education of wine that mirrored my hopes of what a tasting could be – to realize that potential. Wine is subjective – do you like what’s in your glass or not? However, wine as a story, a piece of history and the language that defines our wine culture is all incredibly fascinating. The best scenario for learning combines an experience that encompasses those elements and presents them to you, simply put, in a fun and unpretentious way. The Noble Rot is the answer to unpretentious wine snobbery.

– Jonathan

Noble Rot Website Theme Author: kevinw.de.