“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’
Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”
DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland)
Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin
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RECOMMENDED by The New York Times and The Daily Globe
“ ... irreverent, guffaw provoking ... irresistible ... ”
ALICE FEIRING in WALL STREET JOURNAL 2ND BEST! DAMN!
“the Rimbaud of McLaren Vale … bandanna on head, standing on a table outside the Victory Hotel, shooting geology at the wine-sluggers with all the fiery conviction of a temperance preacher in the goldfields” Andrew Jefford
Just be wary of Philip White, the Charles Bukowski of Australian wine writers and for my money one of the best in the business, who recently described a wine as “a stark raving crazy transvestite musk ox with bad breath and a dirty botty” Nick Ryan Men’s Style
“forthright, opinionated, aggressive - sometimes just plain wrong” The Key Report
“Australian wine has never seen, and will never again likely see, a writer as great” Campbell Mattinson
“BONKERS!” Fiona Beckett THE GUARDIAN
“On form, Philip is Australian wine’s Kerouac, Hemingway and la Montaigne rolled into one.”
MAX ALLEN - THE AUSTRALIAN
In the midst of the current wowser/dry/proho uprising in the thirstiest country on Earth, click on Charles Bukowski to read a withering but cool demolition of the latest Australian wowser Docs' brochure masquerading as science ... Charlie wouldna stood for it!
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Whitey, as I've heard you say, "there are always a lot more old drunks than old doctors"!
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