Cool wine products that we love, #1 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... Categories Wine Blog
#7WordWineReview… all the latest news #7WordWineReview – all the latest news Regular readers will know that 12×75.com started a massive Twitter craze called #7WordWineReview whereby its users provide a fast paced, instant, succinct review of the... Categories Wine Blog
How to humiliate and/or kill the world’s finest wines 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... Categories Wine Blog
Chateau Musar Tasting – Guest Blog from BWI 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... Categories Wine Blog
Football and fine wine – a match made in heaven? 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... Categories Wine Blog
What will Bordeaux do without Parker? 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... Categories Wine Blog
Shhh…The Online Speakeasy Some of our regular readers of 12×75.com and By The Bottle (Have you not downloaded issue 2 yet? Shame on you. Get it here – in English in portrait mode... Categories Wine Blog
2nd Edition of By The Bottle Magazine We are delighted to announce that the 2nd edition of By The Bottle Magazine, our digital wine and lifestyle magazine, is now available to download. The 2nd edition is only... Categories Wine Blog
Interview with Tony Laithwaite Tony Laithwaite, thank you for taking the time to talk with us here at 12×75.com In my opinion my first question ought to be about your rock, colleague, friend... Categories Wine Blog
Blind love and Bordeaux By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor With anything that grows, it is guaranteed that crop yields and quality levels in any given year will fluctuate with the challenges that each... Categories Wine Blog
What’s wrong with a little bit of snobbery? Our regular readers will be used to us bleating on about taking the stuffiness out of fine wine. Sometimes, though, it becomes very obvious that ‘stuffiness’ and ‘snobbery’ are two... Categories Wine Blog
What is it that you want, people?! A recent survey by Laithwaites demonstrated that customers are turned off by the notes on the back of the wine label that advises you about how the wine tastes, Harpers... Categories Wine Blog