Calories in Wine I wonder how many of us think about wine calories when we make the decision to have a glass with dinner. I must admit that I don’t really think about... Categories Wine Blog
Red Riding Hood Meets Chinon Inspired by a Bernard Beaudry Chinon For more Wine Art, visit my website at http://theillustratedwine.wordpress.com/ Categories Wine Blog
Would you buy it? Margaux’s six-figure Balthazar 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... Categories Wine Blog
Those celebs are at it again…. People often send me articles about wine that they’ve found online, and a couple of friends this week sent me links to the news that Graham Norton will be... Categories Wine Blog
Introducing Zelda Sydney 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... Categories Wine Blog
The Mercury Prize for Wine 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... Categories Wine Blog
Wine merchants that move in mysterious ways 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... Categories Wine Blog
Occasion wines and occasional wines You know when someone describes a wine as an “occasion wine”? Imagine a wine that ought to be saved for a really special occasion, a wine whose brilliance will make... Categories Wine Blog
Laid bare: Naked Fine Wine Bond Few things get the wine community talking like the announcement of another investment scheme. So when Naked Wines announced it was seeking to raise £3m through a fine wine... Categories Wine Blog
Licensed to swill Every time a new James Bond film is released I end up having the same conversation with people. It usually begins with “have you seen it yet?” I’ll say no,... Categories Wine Blog
Wine snobbery and pro-nun-ci-at-ion Wine snobbery and pro-nun-ci-at-ion I went to visit my parents in Northern Ireland last year for Christmas and knowing that I really love my wines, my dad had really pushed... Categories Wine Blog
Share A Coke With, Share A Claret With…. The cleverest piece of marketing I have seen in years is Coca-Cola’s current ‘Share a Coke with…’ campaign. When I go to the shop at lunchtime, I can’t get near... Categories Wine Blog
