“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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12 June 2013

BLADDER PACKS EXPORT FURORE

Reporting from Sydney for BloombergBusinessweek, David Fickling has caused a very awkward frisson in the ranks of Australia's biggest wine exporters by revealing they really do put bladder pack wine into bottles.  Click here for the terrible news.

There's nothing new, however, about the idea of using giant bladder packs for wine storage, or indeed the notion of using them for ultra-premiums.  For a brief time in the mid-sixties, bladders were considered for use on Penfolds Grange. For a quick history of Australia's fascination with the wine balloon, click here.

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