Sour Grapes

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Neil Pendock. Sour Grapes

Preface

Introduction

Connoisseurs

Inappropriate ones

Accidental ones

Genuine ones

Crisis? What crisis?

Running off to join the circus

The tale of a nose

The Boer War continued by other means

Platter’s blind vision

Big, burly bruisers

A transatlantic war of taste

Winespeak

Malcolm Gluck

Auberon Waugh

Herman Charles Bosman

Nattering nabobs of negativism

Artists of the earth

The fabulous, lost language of plants

Johan Reyneke

Art or craft?

Artists of the gallery – a cultural symbiosis

Jeff Koons

Donald ‘Il Magnifico’ Hess

Bacchus wears Blahnik: Vicki Tollman

William Kentridge

Protecting purity: Marlene Dumas

Marketing mojo

First we take Manhattan

Sensory marketing

The wisdom of crowds

Butt-brush and Blahniks

Selling the moment

Shapeshifting

Couture and cuvées

Sign language

Comtesse Alexia and the death of South African Chenin

Ruminations on Rumi

The New York Times weighs in

The last word

Appendix. The Shame in numbers

Platter’s monkeys

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Sour grapes

Neil Pendock

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Recent developments, however, might spoil his love affair with le vin français:

‘Now, though, it seems like my simple and rather brilliant plan is to be wrecked, because Australia recently overtook France as the biggest wine supplier to Britain and the French have decided to fight back by making Aussie-style, easy-on-the-palate, industrialised global plonk.’

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