“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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04 October 2014

FINO WINE LIST IN HALL OF FAME AGAIN

Congratulations to David Swain and Sharon Romeo for yet another big gong for the ever-changing wine list at Fino ... even more congratulations for serving the perfect springtime lunch yesterday ... the only thing missing was a hammock ... below is a favourite snap of David and Sharon with the Yangarra/Hickinbotham Clarendon Vineyard crew, with Shazza atop the lofty Napa Cabernet king, Chris Carpenter ... l-r: Michael Lane (viticulturer), Shelley Torresan (winemaker) David, Peter Fraser (general manager - winemaker), Chris and Sharon and Charlie Seppelt (Winemaker) ... photos Philip White



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