Category: Wine Blog

My hatred of camping ensures that I don’t go to festivals but I was delighted to hear the rapturous responses to The Rolling Stones’ debut at Glastonbury.  I’m of the...

– is honesty the best policy on wine labels? Decanter reported back in May this year that top California producer Ridge Vineyards was backing full disclosure on wine labels of...

I visited Cardiff at the weekend – it’s a city I like very much.  On Saturday my friend and I trawled the little arcades and went into lovely fashion boutiques...

Winemaking and robots – together at last I was looking for an interesting topic to write about earlier when I discovered this BBC video regarding the little robot that has...

  It’s surprising to encounter a novel new wine-related product that we really rate here at 12×75.com – a lot of the time when we review ‘innovative’ new products, it...

Working in the trade, I once dropped a very fine bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape on my toe. I learned three very important lessons straight away. 1. Good bottles of...

Ask any wine lover to list wines they have tasted from unlikely places and nine times out of ten, I bet they’ll put the Lebanon’s Chateau Musar near the top...

I’ve been reading on Decanter.com the rumours that red-faced shoe-throwing football manager Sir Alex Ferguson has plans to purchase a vineyard in the south of France.  What a delightful change...

The Drinks Business reported on 16th May that Robert Parker had slammed the concept of “Parkerisation” – read the article here.  It’s hardly surprising that he’s reluctant to embrace a...