Lunch with the Wegner broers Ad and Johan from Getwine and Cobus Joubert on Wednesday to test drive a parcel of Constantia Uitsig the broers had come into. Who said SA Sauvignon Blanc should be drunk in the year of the vintage, Gyles Webb? The Constantia 2012s are only now coming round. Pity the First National Blanc Top Ten ignored the whole appellation last year! No wonder there were so few takers for their selection that Wade Bales was smousing and totally stuffed the marketing strategy of poor old Hermit on the Pill. Which confirms the great SA wine drinking public are not as dof as the Top Ten judges.

Our own weekly RECM Best Value blind tastings kick off at the end of the month and Esona from Robertson will be submitting three vintages of Sauvignon Blanc. Even if Toxic Tim, the Leila Khaled of SA wine (he hijacks all the foreign wine identities who come to Cape Town with Andrew Jefford and Jancis Robinson his latest victims) thinks that Robertson does not make serious wine.

If Apple can install a kill switch in their smartphones to counter iPhone hijackings, can Vinpro not think of a similar system to save SA wine from the depredations of fading hackettes like Toothy and Lasagna, now well past their sell by date?