The wines of Platter’s South African Wine Guide 2017 assessed by an enthusiastic team of tasters.

The wines of Platter’s South African Wine Guide 2017 are assessed by an enthusiastic team of tasters.

The wines featured in 37th edition of Platter’s South African Wine Guide (2017) were assessed by a team of South African tasters whose professionalism and unflagging enthusiasm can't be questioned.

In the Platter’s South African Wine Guide 2017 their initials appear below the wines they tasted, as follows: Angela Lloyd (AL); Master of Wine Cathy van Zyl (CvZ); Cape Wine Masters Winnie Bowman (WB), Greg de Bruyn (GdB), Tim James (TJ), Christine Rudman (CR) and Meryl Weaver (MW); also David Biggs (DB), Hennie Coetzee (HC), Joanne Gibson (JG), Cathy Marston (CM), Fiona McDonald (FM), Gregory Mutambe (GM), Samarie Smith (SS) and Dave Swingler (DS). Philip van Zyl, chief editor of Platter’s South African Wine Guide said warm thanks to the rest of the splendid team, specially to associate editors Cathy van Zyl and Tim James (also proofreader); copywriters Hennie Coetzee, Joanne Gibson, Tim James, Angela Lloyd, Cathy Marston, Fiona McDonald, Christine Rudman, Samarie Smith, Wendy Toerien, Cathy van Zyl and Meryl Weaver; information coordinator Ina deVilliers; wine coordinators Celia Gilloway and Christina Harvett, assisted by Gerda de Wet, Hailey Hippolyte, Darren Maree, Kungeka Mpangwa, Sandiswe Mpateni, MF Schoeman, Marga Vermaak and Joanne Williams; map and typesetting guru Gawie duToit; Tessa Fenton-Wells for advertising sales; Christine Parent for book sales and administration; Lara Philp and Johan Rademan ofVineyard Connection for the use of their excellent facilities; Angela Lloyd for indexing; Lauren de Kock for fact-checking; Mark Whyte and XtraSmile Couriers; Danie Pretorius and the Brandy Foundation; Ben van Rensburg (Modern Web Presence) for the QR code; and the ever-helpful SAWIS. Special thanks to Sean de Kock for 24 x 7 help with the database, intranet and website.

This is a press release of Namibiana Buchdepot: Wines of Platter’s South African Wine Guide 2017 assessed by an enthusiastic team of tasters.