“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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23 February 2014

GREAT CHEF TAKES DRINKSTER TO LUNCH

Look who arrived today to carry the Drinkster to a perfect slow lunch at Fino ... Donata and Stefano de Pieri, with their daughter Claudia and son Domenico, who've been holidaying in McLaren Vale to celebrate Domenico's return after a six month winemaking tour of Italy.  Stefano and his family share my delight at the new wave of more elegant, less industrial wines the more sensitive and bright makers are striving to perfect.  We toured the vineyards of Yangarra and Clarendon Estates, tasted Peter Fraser's wines, and then retired to Fino, where we surrendered to the waves of utter deliciousness Sharon Romero delivered to our happy table. You'd be very hard-pressed to find more enthusiastic dining company than a mob like this. Many great lies were swapped ... we have form.



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