Comments on: Weekender to close: the Silver Lining

By: Katy Chance

Katy Chance — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:45:23 +0000

Dear Last Chance Saloon (aka Neil?)

NO KATY, YOU CAN STOP BEING SO PARANOID, THE LAST CHANCE SALOON IS NOT CALLED NEIL – ED.

I created and edited the travel and food section three and a half years ago and latterly edited the whole Review section for The Weekender.
There is no Review (RIP) section online, but if there were to be, I would continue to commission and edit the freelance services of the formidable Penny Haw regularly and with alacrity.
Regards

By: Neil Pendock

Neil Pendock — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:50:05 +0000

http://www.wine.co.za/news/New.....ource=News for more thoughts on the demise of The Weekender.

By: Last Chance Saloon

Last Chance Saloon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:52:48 +0000

It is great to know that Week-ender’s television columnist also planned the wine stories. Multi-tasking is such a useful tool in the world of journalism, but if I had to take a chance on the success of Week-ender’s (RIP) review section, it would be on Penny Haw’s execution of colour pieces, including those on wine.

By: Katy Chance

Katy Chance — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:02:29 +0000

Neil
A few things. Thanks for the kind comments about Penny Haw’s ‘wine’ articles (although she never wrote about wine per se), because the ‘angles’ for her stories were decided on and commissioned by myself.
Also, The Weekender did not ‘take a stand at WineX’ but has been media partner with WineX for three years.
Regards

By: Marc Afton-Cooper

Marc Afton-Cooper — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:21:33 +0000

Gosh Charles, sorry I seemed a bad loser, not my intention.
JR was speaking to her target audience, ie not Spar shoppers. As such she said that the Western Cape was a very large and unspecific appellation, and as the only other area (hot, northerly etc) did not export much, it was de facto “a wine wine in made in South Africa”. Perhaps she should have known that the Northern Cape exports in bulk to China and that KwaZuluNatal is now also a geographical unit, but her article still makes sense. Unlike some of my ramblings.

By: Charles Pickford

Charles Pickford — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:00:19 +0000

Marc, you are a bad albeit funny, loser. Please explain this bit of Jancis geography: ‘In effect, Western Cape on a wine label means “somewhere in South Africa” ‘

NO IT DOES NOT for a drinker of Spar Country Cellars wines made from grapes grown in the NORTHERN CAPE.

By: Marc Afton-Cooper

Marc Afton-Cooper — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:41:01 +0000

Apologies Carlos, and all other readers. The most northerly vinyards are not in the WESTERN CAPE. Jancis Robinson appears to know this but somehow I appear not to.
Silly Marc
My only excuse is that i was trying to drink the right amount of champagne for one man as per a Winston Churchill quote on another uncorked blog post. It was said to be a magnum (there were two of us but the other fellow wasn’t drinking”. Only later did I find that this was also factually incorrect and it should have been an imperial; pint of champagne. Hence my bad proof reading.

By: Carlos Braga

Carlos Braga — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:33:16 +0000

Come again Marc? She knows that the most northerly vineyards are NOT in the Northern Cape? Well, they are. Silly Marc!

By: Marc Afton-Cooper

Marc Afton-Cooper — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:03:01 +0000

Silly Carlos. The sentence in question shows that JR DOES know that the “very hottest, most northerly vinyards” are not in the Northern Cape, which NP implied she did not.

You then bring up the next sentence which is almost irrelevent except that it re-inforces JR’s point that the Western Cape is a very large, unpecific and generic region.

Silly Carlos.

By: Carlos Braga

Carlos Braga — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:54:16 +0000

You read it wrong then Marc. Her next sentence says: ‘In effect, Western Cape on a wine label means “somewhere in South Africa” ‘- what about the +20m litres produced in the Northern Cape? These wines do not have Western Cape on the label.