Turning off the beaten track, and avoiding the usual African cliches, the Platters carve out their own quirky road, illuminating people and places along the way. spitting and swallowing their way through Africa from top to toe, they follow the wine trail from Ethiopia, Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco through Kenya and Tanzania, right down to Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar, Reunion and Mauritius.
Africa Uncorked
Description
Table of Contents
North Africa: Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Egypt. East Africa: Ethiopia; Kenya; Tanzania. The islands: Madagascar; Reunion; Mauritius. Southern Africa: Zimbabwe; Namibia; South Africa. The End?. Wine notes; wine-speak.
Author Description
Writers John and Erica Platter have headed the South African best-seller lists for more than 20 years with their phenomenally successful wine guide. Known simply as 'Platter', this pocket companion is rated by Decanter as 'one of the best wine guides in the world' and was winner of the 2001 Lanson Wine Guide of the Year award. The Platters' combination of wine knowledge and African travel experience is unique. They know their continent and its vineyards from the ground up and have written extensively on both. JOHN has contributed to, amongst others, Jancis Robinson's Oxford Companion to Wine and Mitchell Beazley's New World of Wine. He judges at and presents international tastings - the John Platter Wine Dinner in Hong Kong has become a popular annual event. ERICA is the author of a humorous crime novel set in the Cape vineyards - A Strange Case of Wine (1993).