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Benito Di Fonzo

The remains of Senior Di Fonzo’s booze-making station AKA the garage. Photography by Melita Rowston.

Great Wog Boozes of the Inner West

Benito Di Fonzo, Neighbourhood

Today when I see folks discussing their wine with sommelier-like crapulence I know I’d rather a Vegemite jar of Black Charlie poured from an old DA bottle, followed by Mrs Polluzzi’s duck egg linguine, all washed down with my father’s home-made limoncello or an espresso stained with his bespoke sambuca or amaretto.

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