Noble Rot, Director's Cup! - Issue #36 Gladiator Cover

Noble Rot Issue #36, Director's Cup, Gladiator cover, is a print magazine of wine, food and culture in the second of two collectable jackets.

Ridley Scott is the draw: Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Alien and Gladiator behind him, a Provençal vineyard to his name, and a maverick line on everything from eggs to artificial intelligence. Gary Taxali illustrated a cover for two of those films and this is the Gladiator one, the contents unchanged. Elsewhere a chatbot is set to work impersonating a London sommelier and comes off second best, Alice Feiring marks a decade of The Four Horsemen in Brooklyn with James Murphy and Justin Chearno, and there is a visit to Luigi Veronelli's cellar in Bergamo.

Choose this jacket if Gladiator beats Alien for you; the writing inside is the same either way. It suits drinkers who arrived at wine sideways, through music, film or restaurant kitchens, and stayed for the arguments.