Category: Wine Blog

As you know, this isn’t a wine review site, but coming up to Christmas it seemed appropriate to say a few words about a bottle that our readers actually might...

By Will Evered – BWI Private Client Advisor I don’t think many would disagree that the wine trade largely revolves around London. We have any number of excellent restaurants, wine...

Preparation for winter in my household is pretty much non-existent, although we usually try to live without the central heating until the end of October to save a bit of...

Some years ago, I had a very mixed experience working as a sommelier.  I say mixed because I was in the job for less than six months, I had blagged...

Inspired by a Bernard Beaudry Chinon For more Wine Art, visit my website at http://theillustratedwine.wordpress.com/

By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor   Ever planned a dinner party with a few dozen of your closest friends and lamented the fact you didn’t have a Balthazar of...

The 12×75 team are very excited to introduce Zelda Sydney as a new contributor to the site. Zelda is a professional writer by trade, hower she is an incredible  animator...

If you’re young, hip and have your finger on the pulse (like all of us at 12×75, of course) you’ll know that the Mercury prize nominations for best album were...

My first job as a wine merchant was in the off-sales shop in the students’ union at university. It wasn’t exactly a hard sell, most nights I would put my...