The wine services sector in SA is nothing if not entrepreneurial. Hardly had the Jimmy Choos of Tim Atkin finished putting the boot into the export aspirations of SA’s heavyweight wines in COC-UP – Campaign Opposed to Carbon-Unfriendly Packaging – he’s running in the Observer, than the e-mail offering a “GCX Certified Carbon Footprint Analyst Course Level 1” – a snip at R6,500 for three days, dropped into my in-box. The course content certainly contains huge amounts of hot air:

Is the loss of ice on Kilimanjaro caused by UK winehacks flying to SA?

Day 1: Why should we measure carbon:

Practical Example via case study

Of course wine hacks live in glass houses when it comes to giving heavyweight bottles the flick. Should we give up our freebees, flying around the world to taste wine or to judge international wine competitions, play golf or go cage diving for sharks? Of course Tim himself lives in one of the best appointed crystal palaces. I wonder whether he’ll be accepting submissions in heavy bottles for the International Wine Competition in London next year where he is a co-chair? Let’s hope nobody calls for a boycott of that!

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