“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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05 February 2015

IDEAL VINTAGE CONDITIONS IN THE VALES

After some high spikes of temperature early in the season, and then perhaps a little too much moist, misty weather for some vineyards, 2015 has settled down to near perfection in my neck of the woods. This is the Yangarra High Sands Grenache vineyard an hour ago: 25C, and a lovely light breeze. These vines were planted by my neighbour Bernard Smart in 1946. They have never been watered. The whole of McLaren Vale is quietly hopeful this ideal weather will continue for the next weeks. The tartaric acid salesfolks won't be buying too many new BMWs this year, if these conditions continue! ... photo Philip White

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