“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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23 May 2013

FIRST McLAREN VALE GEOLOGY TOUR






















Vine scientist James Hook, left, of DJ's Growers and Lazy Ballerina Wines, with the author this morning at the beginning of the first of a series of geology tours of McLaren Vale.  In the midst of all that vegetation lies one of the few exposures of the Tapley's Hill Formation, the last of this priceless 700 million year old siltstone - which is perfect grape-growing geology - about to disappear beneath dormitory housing at Seaford Heights ... photos Bodhi Edwards (above), Brad Cameron (below)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Went friday and found it extremely interesting and informative. Thanks to you Drew and James for your time effort and wilingness to share your knowledge and passion.
Thanks Peter