Blabbering nonsense 13 December 2007

A reader finds too much negativity and self-importance in our articles and comments

From Vieilles Vignes:

The circus that is unimportance continues. In psychology terms, there's a reference that a person’s perception of importance is portrayed in his reference to others.

Reading the last couple of weeks’ articles and the comments that follow them, I can only conclude that we have people here who are of no importance at all, but personally believe the opposite.

One snide comment after the other, followed by negativity only bettered by Zimbabwe's economy!

The DGB comments [to the article by Michael Fridjhon]? Please, Tom, I truly do hope you don't drive a car that is not produced by one of the BIG companies, and please tell me you have Linux software and not Microsoft on your PC! Between us, Bellingham bottled their first wine in 1947, and Douglas Green in 1938. Not exactly an overnight big money operation coming to kill the five year old garagistes!

Instead of wasting your time trying to outwit your perceived word war against each other, do some research for an article of some substance instead of this blabbering nonsense, that supplies nothing more than a chuckle and shake of the head.

COMMENTS

From Poor Tom!:
True-true, it's so much easier to be negative than it is to be positive about stuff (wine included). The quality of DGB's Mavericks, Big D's Fleur du Cap Unfiltereds, the Private Collection of Spier and a lot of the other offerings can't be brought into question. Being a smaller producer is not easy either, you have to be way more dynamic than the larger players, and that's sometimes the shortfall of smaller to medium sized folk. So let's rather ask who's had an utterly earth-shaking bottle of South African wine lately? Any producer, price-point or style.