Following hot on the heels of the fiasco in the UK parliamentary election last week, comes a poll of “SA’s pioneer wine bloggers” on Winetimes. The criterion is amount of posts per month and using this metric, Uncorked is placed second. Yet something is clearly wrong with the voting as winetimes’ graph below illustrates. Uncorked is the Mr. Mustard curve which is zero until June 2009 which was not the case. For example, if you bother to read this site you will see 16 postings for January 2009 as opposed to the zero recorded by Winetimes. Disregard these dodgy returns and Uncorked won in every month except for August 2009 and April 2010.

Winetimes' dodgy voting

Uncorked demands a recount and a groveling apology from Winetimes. The bottom five positions of the Winetimes poll are filled with denizens of the Grape communal blog and quite how reproducing a weekly Business Day column available online counts as a blog is a travesty when a simple link to the BDFM site would suffice. Winetimes should seriously rethink their poll as African elections have a bad enough reputation already without this one adding to continental confusion.