“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 May 2013

INKWELL BROWNMAN WRITES TOP ESSAY

Dudley Brown writes The Wine Rules.  His current think about Australia's vastness vs its scattered satellite wine regions and the way to market this shit to the ends of the Earth is probly the most significant Australian wine blog essay published since blogging began. Here are two European maps and a true map of what it was like here before the Blue Eyes and wine arrived. Pour yourself a fifteen-minute glass and wallow. Read it again. And if you feel like reading a couple of thirty-year-old interviews about Australian wine marketing techniques, check Atlanta wine merchant Frank Stone talking about the USA market and Tony Lord, publisher/editor of Decanter talking about the UK market. Just how far have we got? Seems to me we added some zeroes but really haven't learned much.


Current working template showing Original Nations and language groups of this place before all us white boatpeople mob arrived to occupy it, convert it to Jesus, give it poisoned flour and call it Australia. That's the White Armband history of Australia.









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