LIQUID INVESTMENTS: John Platter’s urbane tour of the kind of wine he likes
The book isn’t obviously critical — it’s the literary equivalent of a teflon-coated wine tour, writes Michael Fridjhon JOHN Platter's latest book "My Kind of Wine" (Paw Paw publishing R380) is a 200+ page idiosyncratic take on Cape wine by the man who started the eponymous guide about 35 years ago. It is obviously a completely different kind of wine book: instead of addresses, phone numbers and ratings, it talks about the people who make up the South African wine industry, the sites where the grapes are grown, the relationships the Platters formed in the two decades they lived in the Cape, the new names and new wine styles that have emerged since then. It’s laid out with a kind of logic that makes it work as a pathfinder of sorts — not one that would lead you to the cellars profusely illustrated in the text, or even to direct you in terms of purchase — but one that makes you feel you know the place much better for having read it.There’s much to recommend it: Platter writes beautiful...
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