“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 February 2014

VINTAGE 2014 BEGINS AT YANGARRA

Olivers Taranga winemaker Corrina Wright hits the brekky fizz to celebrate the first 2014 fruit squashed at Yangarra: five tonnes of her Vermentino with perfect vital statistics, if a tad low in yield.  Rock'n'roll! ... photo Philip White

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