Wednesday, 2 June, 2021 Dave Jefferson Most in the Cape wine business likely do not know who Lettie is, and couldn't care less if she hates Pinotage. Further, the author doesn’t know Lettie personally and can only guess about her reasons for detesting and generally “bad mouthing”, as we call it in the US, our 96-year-old native cultivar. But stay with me, as this unfortunate and continuing behavior has been building over the last ten years, and is not going away. First, we are referring to Ms. Lettie Teague, the wine journalist for the WSJ), the long-established national financial newspaper of the US. She has won three James Beard Awards, including the 2003 MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, the 2005 Best Magazine Columns, and in 2012 Best Food-Related Columns for her work at The Wall Street Journal. She has been used as a wine authority by CNN.