“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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28 May 2015

CHRIS CARPENTER ON TOP NEW BLOG

Kings of Napa Cabernet who regularly make wine in McLaren Vale: Jayson Woodbridge, left, with Chris Carpenter at Port Willunga, vintage 2015.

Milton Wordley has posted a cool interview with Chris on his new blog of winemaker profiles. I'm skiting but honoured to be so regarded by a man I respect very deeply. You can read Chris's story here.

That's Chris below with our dear departed mate, the wine critic Jeremy Pringle, at Hickinbotham Vineyard, Clarendon, last year ... photos Philip White


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