One week away from the deadline for submissions for the “SA Wine Writers Prize” and two of the three judges are revealed: Ton Vosloo “(Chairman of Naspers and previous Afrikaans journalist)” and Tim Adkin. Hopefully this is not the infamous freeloader Tim Atkin who had this to say about me on Jamie Goode’s blog earlier this year:

“Chris, no one I know takes Neil Pendock seriously. He is a buffoon with a mediocre palate and a series of blunt axes to grind. Doesn’t he still live with his mother?
Tim Atkin MW”

Is this Tim Adkin?

Just the kind of objectivity the competition needs after last year’s fiasco of the prize going to the deputy editor of a magazine on which one of the judges was a columnist. Sure entries are anonymous, but thanks to Google it takes but a nanosecond to assign an author to a published piece. This competition is corked.