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The Pendock/Platter wine war was picked up on Saturday by By, lifestyle supplement in several Afrikaans language newspapers. With Afrikaans the lingua franca of the wine producing industry, this is a serious escalation in the war of words. My translation of Emile Joubert’s story:
Today’s Sunday Times carries the latest skirmish in an ongoing Wine War between champions of assessment through blind tastings versus sighted assessments by non-independent tasters à la Platter. The latest flare-up was in response to a libelous attack by a pissant associate editor of the guide in the current edition of Noseweek. In addition to legal remedies, I thought presenting the facts to the SA wine drinking public would be useful. To this end I penned my opening position and suggested to the Sunday Times Travel & Food editor that the guide’s position be polled. Herewith a rebuttal of some points made by Platter’s editor.
Uncorked will briefly descend from from this digital platform to an analogue one at 3:30pm today (Friday) when I discuss Jane MacQuitty’s claim in the Times last month that most SA red wine tastes “peculiar, savage, [of] burnt rubber and dirt” with Jenny Crwys-Williams on her Talk Radio 702 program. The MacQuitty story is the latest salvo in an unprecedented attack on SA red wine by some of the big guns of UK wine. Read More…
