Wine Ruffian tells me to take off my troll hat and let’s have “less bickering about the wine and their (sic) ratings, sighted/blind etc bla bla…enjoy it for what it is.” Bloody cheek! For any other American tourists wishing to pen a wine guide funded by copies purchased by producers (the Top 100 SA Wine model fine tuned by Robin von Holdt), here is an example of what a troll looks like (back view)

And side view, fiddling with his smart phone instead of paying attention to the panel discussion on Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl at Delaire Graff on Thursday.

On Saturday, the troll popped up at La Residence for the Diners Club Winemaker of the Year dinner (in the same outfit) to speculate on what I was thinking. He also seems to have stolen my business card from the La Residence GM. I really don’t need a troll to write PR for me, but as long as he spells my name correctly, every little bit of publicity helps. Susan Huxter from Le Quartier Francais, one of the many Franschhoek establishments to ban this Teutonic troll, claims the best way to fight back is to ignore him (“which drives him wild”). I think exposure of his behaviour is more fun and drives traffic to the blog.

PS Ruffian takes exception to being tarred with the Whale brush

“LOL! I might actually consider it an insult to be compared to the cottaging whale, however, I have more important things to worry about. Like my pending examination results, how I am going to afford my next bottle of wine and where I will be spending my holiday this summer.”