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SA Wine in Ostrich Mode

Posted: November 14th, 2012 | By Neil Pendock


The silence from well-paid SA wine industry bodies on the labour crisis in the Winelands and calls for a wine boycott by the ANC in the Eastern Cape is fast becoming a crisis itself. While scenes of Ceres going up in flames this morning (below) percolate as far as Saint-Hippolyte in Alsace, where is the leadership?

A week into the crisis and the WOSA website had not been updated in a month. FairtradeSA is silent while wild rumours about which side of the debate WIETA has positioned itself, fly around Twitter. Once again, crisis management in SA wine is sadly lacking.

  
 
 

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Jose de Andrade

November 14, 2012 at 11:36 am

Not their problem – parties ( and income ) continue !!!

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    Called "South Africa's most influential wine writer" by DrinksBiz (NZ), a "wijngoeroe" and "beminnelijk maar snoeihard" by De Telegraaf, a "Master of SA Writing" by Ernst Gouws and voted “most trusted palate” by readers of WINE magazine, Neil Pendock is South Africa’s leading Indie drinks commentator.

    An "enthusiastic amateur", he owns a small farm on the Paardeberg which used to supply a few grapes to Swartland Winery, a producer he never wrote about. After two decades in the spittoon, he retains a healthy disregard for the anoraks, bowties and Emperors of drink and their new clothes.