An e-mail interlocutor reports that someone called Peter alleges on the Grape vanity blog that the only people who read the blogs of wine writers are other wine writers, which judging by the multiple hits that Uncorked experiences on a daily basis, implies that wine writing is alive and well in SA. A related point is made by Ken Forrester who e-mails that SA is the only country in the world where winewriters write about each other, rather than wine. Which says something about SA wine and SA wine writers, but I’m not sure what!

To continue this proud tradition and for my many frenemies over at Grape, a scurrilous appendix to my open letter to Angela Lloyd which has assumed cult status among the many PR agencies that have experienced the rough side of Angela’s tongue.

A quondam provincial treasure of Cape wine (and Living Legend in waiting), Angela is in all kinds of hot water with her response to comments on her Nederburg/CWG Auction posting on the Grape vanity blog. Taken to task by interlocutor WC for implicitly slagging off Nederburg Auctioneer Stephan Welz for his performance at an event she did not bother to attend, in defending her charge that last month’s Auction had lost its glamour, she repeats the slander “make no mistake, I would be delighted if the Nederburg Auction could recapture its past prestige, but I do wonder whether Distell has the will or ability.”

For good measure, WC is labeled a “piss pot” for taking the trouble to comment, Angela mistaking a commode for famous British statesman Winston Churchill, admittedly an easy mistake to make, given Winnie’s shiny pate. Talk about yellow journalism, as one PR commented!

Few would disagree that the little room would have been the best place for Angela to leave her ruminations on events she knows nothing about and concentrate on tasting the stuff, about which she has plenty to say. Meanwhile, Uncorked’s in-box is full to overflowing with congratulations on our original open letter to our dipsomaniacal diva, confirming that the sighted tasting policy for the most excellent Platter guide where Angela serves as kingmaker and queen bee, ensures that objections to her imperious reign need be made anonymously and in private lest revenge be wrecked in the pages of the guide, dripping as it is with red ink like the stabbed victims of this Lucrezia Borgia of the Bottle.

On a lighter note, Uncorked is off to Paarl this evening for the KWV retirement plegtigheid for outgoing chairman Danie de Wet. Johann Rupert is guest speaker and informed rumour has it that the function will be “an evening to treasure.” Hopefully Angela RSVP’d in time as another breathy report about a function she did not attend would be too nerve wracking.

Danie de Wet and an admirer

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