EDDIE PEPPERELL SHORT SHOTS

What was the last book you read?

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. I really enjoyed that, but it’s totally bizarre and abstract and you’ve got a talking cat in Russia but you somehow think you can relate it back to your life and I thought that was beautiful. Problem is, is that you read books like that and you end up going a little crazy. Someone like Sting would read books like that I guess, and he’s just somehow a little bit odd, and I don’t want to be odd when I’m 40 or 50. Are you into e-books or old-fashioned paper copies? No, it wouldn’t be e-books, it would be old-fashioned, yes; I like real books! In your learned opinion, which wine and chocolate complement each other best? It’s a good question. Dark chocolate, you have to say, goes best with red wine. Dark chocolate, however, is far too healthy for me, so I always go for Thorntons. The wine has to be a Bordeaux; the smell of a Bordeaux is definitely one of the finer things in life! Any plans to start your own wine label? No chance of an Eddie Pepperell wine label, there’s no money in it. And I’d eat all the chocolate if I was to become a chocolatier! I’m happy just buying it occasionally. Any plans to play in Australia? You’ll love our reds… I’ve never been or played golf in Australia, and from what I hear the golf is just amazing down there so that would be the obvious choice really. I’ve played in America and great places in Europe, Leopard Creek (South Africa) is one of my favourite places on the planet, but certainly to go to Australia would be a real highlight.