It didn’t take Tim James, new wine columnist at the earnest Mail & Guardian, long to piss off that organ’s subeditors. The name of his column alternates between Corkscrewed and Cock Screwed. Let’s hope this is not a clumsy attempt to “out” the “suspiciously childless” Tim, to appropriate a phrase he famously deployed at two musical winemakers on his previous organ, Grape. Now Afrikaans winemaker André van Rensburg is anglicized to Andrew van Rensburg in a recent story on Waterkloof Syrah, again under the Cock Screwed byline – Screw Up would be more appropriate. Although the schoolboy howlers are corrected without comment when Tim regurgitates his column on Grape and calls it a blog. Sensitive souls and maiden aunts are thankful the M&G doesn’t run to picture bylines!

Tim James, screwed by the M&G subs

Cock Screwed or Corkscrewed, the local wine scene is immeasurably livened up by the Mail & Guardian crashing into the tasting room with their irreverent treatment of the oft too serious world of fine wine at the southernmost tip. Hats off to arts editor Matthew Krouse.

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