‘Intoxicating: Ten drinks that shaped Australia’ - Countdown to launch: eighth chapter

Countdown to the launch of ‘Intoxicating’, my new book about the history of drinking in Australia. Chapter eight is ‘A flagon of McWilliam’s Port’. It looks at the pleasure and the pain of cheap grog, and asks a critical question of everyone involved in the booze business: how to reconcile profiting from a product that can cause such profound harm? It also includes the best advice I’ve ever received about drinking – advice given by an Aboriginal man ... The picture, from The Age in 1953, is one of the first ads for the then-new Wynvale flagons. #IntoxicatingTenDrinks