Category: Wine Blog

True Crime : Fine Wine What Happened to Rudy Kurniawan? The Forger Who Started Making Fake Wine Again Some criminals disappear after prison. Some write books. And then there’s the...

Drinks Culture Wine Is Basically a Gym Bro With Better Vocabulary Lean. Muscular. Full-bodied. Tight. Flabby. Powerful. At some point you have to ask whether you’re tasting Cabernet or standing...

The Blind Tasting Best Cheap Wine Under $25: The Bottles That Punch Miles Above Their Price The best cheap wine under $25 does not have to taste cheap. I learned...

Wine is just fruit juice that yeast has had its way with. Getting fermentation to happen is easy. Getting something you actually want to drink, rather than five litres of...

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...

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...

🍷 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...

🍷 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...

Wine sales are sliding, young Americans are drinking less than any generation in living memory, and a Surgeon General’s advisory has tied alcohol to higher cancer risk. The numbers are...