Voices in the Vines

Set beneath the tiers in the long shadows of the Mount Lofty Ranges of South Australia, where world famous Penfolds Wines reclines in glorious splendour, Voices in the Vines takes the reader along a pathway through the vines to listen to voices yearning to be heard. Norm Walker, oenologist, sportsman and son of Hurtle Walker, war hero and Méthode Champenoise artisan, is the catalyst amongst South Australian icons like Max Cooper, brewer, and Max Schubert, clandestine creator of Penfolds Grange, and he is the driving force behind the adventures of a family of men who called themselves the Early Marchers. Their lives are a network of connections each showing what it is to be different - what it is to be human. Life comes to life in Norm's recollections. Life becomes real in the textures of his experiences as he plucks from the past what needs to be heard. The events and the happenings that became the sum total of their living years changed South Australia and the world. The voices are in the book. They left their secrets behind and gave us something to honour and value forever.