Noble Rot, Sacred Lunch - Issue #32

Noble Rot Issue #32, Sacred Lunch, is a print magazine of wine, food and culture, published in London.

Fergus Henderson of St John sits at the centre, profiled around his sixtieth birthday, and the nose-to-tail thread continues into Henry Harris's defence of offal. Dan Keeling turns to growers working outside the French appellation system and unimpressed by it, Jean-Marie Guffens among them, while Alice Feiring reports from Hokkaido, where Japanese wine is still taking shape. There is also a piece tying sausages, metallurgy and wine together in the Auvergne. Jon Bonné writes on sommeliers, Simon J Woolf on cloudy wine, and Keeling attempts to educate Peter Crouch.

Cooks will get as much from this as drinkers, given how much of it is about eating. The appellation piece is the sharp one, and good background for anyone puzzled by why serious growers keep labelling fine wine as something humbler.

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