“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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25 January 2016

AUSTRALIA DAY WINEMAKING AWARD


photo © Milton Wordley

Invasion Day, First Fleet Day, White  Australia Day - call it what you will - Dr. Irina Santiago-Brown of Inkwell Wines wins the DRINKSTER's 2016 Australia Day Winemaker Award ... It'd be pointless attempting to write any more about this clever and tireless person than the fascinating story she told photographer Milton Wordley for his blog People of Wine: Ten Questions, which you can read here.
 
Irina has had a huge influence on the viticulture of the region in which I live, McLaren Vale: she's given the entire district a bold new ecological awareness. 

Here's my photo of Irina's famous Blunnies and yellow socks wedding dance at her marriage to Dudley Brown in the middle of vintage 2014 ... for more wedding snaps, click here ... to read of my 2015 winner, click here.

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