Comments on: COCUP: A New Threat to SA Wine Exports

By: Put a cork in it | Pendock Uncorked

Put a cork in it | Pendock Uncorked — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:39:28 +0000

[...] Fontannaz reckons bulk exports have cost 40 jobs at his Origin Wine operation. Likewise, the heavy bottle fatwa loudly trumpeted by WOSA’s favourite UK journo Tim Atkin in those heady days when he had a [...]

By: Top 100 SA Wines, the bloodsucking continues | Pendock Uncorked

Top 100 SA Wines, the bloodsucking continues | Pendock Uncorked — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:21:10 +0000

[...] and a credible judging panel, which this one, headed by a controversial UK wino Tim Atkin whose strident calls for SA wine to be bottled in the UK indirectly led to 40 job losses at Origin Wines, clearly [...]

By: Was Fundi a Flop? | Pendock Uncorked

Was Fundi a Flop? | Pendock Uncorked — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:28:56 +0000

[...] as in the case of those other Atkin attacks – SA reds made from burnt rubber, SA bottles made from kryptonite, etc. – rather than attempt to explain the sommelier shortfall (lack of funding, lack of promised [...]

By: Packing for Palermo | Pendock Uncorked

Packing for Palermo | Pendock Uncorked — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:39:14 +0000

[...] Which was the bizarre comeuppance for Duncan, to find that the mythical Lago dei Palici “a lost mythological lake of black water somewhere in Sicily” bubbling with natural gas (and reason for his trip) had been converted into a CO2 bottling factory for fizzy **** water and Coca Cola. Has the Observer been busy with another planet saving project, a predecessor to COC-UP? [...]

By: Carbon Emissions – a missed opportunity for sensory psychologists | Pendock Uncorked

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:45:53 +0000

[...] Although if the CO2 had worked and winkled out an agreement, environmentalists would hardly have been “popping champagne corks popping [sic] in every corner of the world” as the Guardian fondly imagined they would as this fizz from France is packaged in the heaviest bottles around with XXXL carbon footprints. Only the Observer’s wine hack Tim Atkin opportunistically makes an exception for Champagne in his one man Campaign Objecting to Carbon-Unfriendly Packaging, COCUP. [...]

By: Coals to Newcastle | Pendock Uncorked

Coals to Newcastle | Pendock Uncorked — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:07:17 +0000

[...] service for a better price (corks, bottles and labels being cheaper in Alsace than SA). But a campaign launched by Tim Atkin in The Observer in October against heavyweight glass bottles, has added a [...]

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:05:20 +0000

No problem. The average consumer has no idea who this Tim fellow is. I speak as an average consumer and he means nothing in my life.

By: Sally Deeb

Sally Deeb — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:50:36 +0000

Tim, plastic is not the answer. Glass can by recycled!

Stop polishing your halo and show a little humility. On your head the increased unemployment in South Africa if misguided consumers heed your boycott call!

By: Carlos Braga

Carlos Braga — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:21:22 +0000

Peter

It was Atkin who let the xenophobic cat out of this bag. We all are for lightweight packaging but his juvenile stereotyping of Spanish, Italian and Argentinian producers as macho cretins has thrown the debate into the gutter.

I am ashamed of the Observer hiring such a third rate “talent” as Atkin as wine commentator. Surely the land of Andrew Jefford and Oz Clarke can do better than this joker?

By: Dave Farnham

Dave Farnham — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:08:39 +0000

Peter

Tim is a supermarket pawn – his column read like it was written by a Tesco PR. Bag-in-Box, Fair Trade (a supermarket conscience salving fiction in most cases), bulk wine… No wonder Threshers has gone under today.

Should Her Majesty drive a Tata Nano to save the environment? And excluding Champagne from the campaign is just ridiculous.