Did they do it on purpose? Lure the Cape Town circle of blogsters, party animals, freeloaders, luvvies and bubbly judges to the Amorim MCC awards cocktail party at the 12 Apostles on Monday 12 September at 6pm

and then offer them KoC in the shape of the tasting of the year!

Oh how the freebee fraternity will gnash their teeth and wail at the intentional clash. Watch them come up with novel excuses for dropping MCC for KoC. Food poisoning. Death in the family. Ingrown hair in the topknot. For although we love MCC to bits, you can’t compare the food of Reuben Riffel in the BALLroom of the One & Only led by a UK Master of Wine from HANDJOB Wines to a dozen Apostles plus fizz. For starters, the Cultural Cringe of the Cabernet bash makes 40 Shades of Gray look monochrome.

The line-up of Cabs is interesting but there are several gaping holes. What happened to the First Lady of Warwick and for heaven’s sake manne, where’s the Le Bonheur from the late, great Sakkie Kotze? There’s no Delheim, Simonsig, Villiera or Webbersburg, either. Perhaps Amorim will serve them as a Salon des Refusés to their bubbly guests…