A Luso Lesson for WOSA

While WOSA get ready to piss-away millions of Randelas of SA wine industry money on Cape Wine 2015 (surely invest in the future, ed?) inviting Jade Goodie, Tim Atkin, the A-Ha Girls and a cast of thousands plus the usual suspects for a freebee to the Cape in September, there is a lesson to be learnt from the Portuguese who are taking me to Lisbon at the end of the month. Rather that a no strings attached freebee, the Portuguese ask for a deposit of R3,300.00 which I shall forfeit if I don’t behave. To whit:

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Now expecting a UK hack to spend 16 hours at the CTICC may be a bit of an ask, given the fun times to be had in Riebeek-Kasteel, rounds of golf, shark cage diving and surfing at Muisenberg, a little focus for our foreign guests would not go amiss by the folk who pay the bills: producers in the Olifants and Orange Rivers plus the many and varied brands of Distell.