In Defense of the Long Island Iced Tea 12×75 Opinion · Last Call Somewhere along the way, ordering one became a confession. That reputation is mostly deserved and completely beside the point. Written by Vim, Editor of 12×75.... Categories Cocktail
Orange Wine Has Become Wine’s Marmite Opinion · The Wine Desk Orange Wine Has Become Wine’s Marmite It went from a bottle I nearly threw out of my house to the most argued-about style on serious... Categories Wine Blog
Champagne Trends | A Rant To The Champagne Trade Opinion · The Fizz Desk Dear Champagne Trade, Wake The Fuck Up The biggest Champagne trends on earth are happening on TikTok, not in Reims. The houses are still shooting... Categories Champagne
The Liquor Store of 2030 Won’t Be a Store at All 12×75 Futures Uber just switched off a billion-dollar booze app. The lesson is not that buying a drink will never change. It is that it already has, and the next... Categories Bourbon/Champagne/Cocktail/Gin/Non-Alcoholic Drinks/Tequila/Wine Blog
Best Tequila for Shots 2026 | Salt & Lime Is a Lie The Spirits Desk · Tequila Best Tequila for Shots I’m too old for shots. Then my nephew graduated from the LSE, there were shots, and some tasted like a small... Categories Tequila
America Quietly Ditched Bourbon for Tequila. Then the Tequila Bubble Popped Agave Report Americans now drink more tequila than they do bourbon, rye and Tennessee whiskey combined. The crossover happened years ago. Almost nobody reported it, and by the time anyone... Categories Bourbon/Tequila
Celebrity Tequila Is Running Out of Celebrities There is a version of the celebrity tequila origin story you have heard a hundred times. A famous person, a trip to Mexico, a small distillery, an instant love affair,... Categories Tequila
How Tequila Is Made | Why No Two Bottles Are Alike The Spirits Desk · Tequila How Tequila Is Made A friend of mine came back from a distillery in Jalisco a slightly different person. Then they poured me two blancos,... Categories Tequila
The 35 Best Hotel Minibars in the World 12×75 Guide The tiny fridge has spent most of its life behaving like a small refrigerated mugger. A handful of hotels finally worked out that a bar three feet from... Categories Wine Blog
Judge the Liquid, Not the Luggage 🍷 12×75 Opinion Pick up any bottle over $50 and you feel it before you taste it: the heft, the punt, the magnetic box, the ribbon, the tin that goes... Categories Wine Blog
Wine Doesn’t Have a Price Problem. It Has a Relevance Problem. 🍷 12×75 Opinion Everyone blames price: trading down, tariffs, a generation that would rather spend $18 on a cocktail than a bottle. Part of it is even true. It is... Categories Wine Blog
The Hotel Minibar Wrote Its Own Obituary It was past eleven by the time I finally got to the room. The flight had been delayed, then delayed again, and for the last four hours the only thing... Categories Bourbon/Cocktail/Gin/Non-Alcoholic Drinks/Tequila/Wine Blog/Wine Coolers
