“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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07 October 2011

HAIL DAMAGE BECOMES MORE EVIDENT

DJ's Growers, DRINKSTER's bespoke vineyard advisors, further summarise recent hail damage on young shoots in McLaren Vale, advise that the botrytis threat is still quietly simmering away while the spring remains so damp, and suggest it's time to contemplate some shoot thinning to keep the 2012 crop modest. Click the image to read more.

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