“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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20 February 2017

DONNING THE VEIL FOR VINTAGE '17

They put the bird netting up over the Ironheart Vineyard brides this morning. It's on!

No veils, but it was certainly on at Yangarra boss Peter Fraser's recent marriage to Tessa Hume. We had a fine old time. This is Nick Stock's shot of their arrival at the reception:








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