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...

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...

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...

  While flicking through websites today for interesting news articles that might inspire me for this blog, I got somewhat bogged down in all the Margaret Thatcher news.  Some people...

Drinking and Ping Pong – together at last   12×75.com isn’t exactly known for being a review site, despitethe fact that all of us seem to do an awful lot...

I’m so glad that the clocks have changed now and we have a bit of light in the evenings.  I was beginning to get a bit grouchy  and grumbly but...

12×75.com can exclusively reveal that the great Robert Parker has announced his retirement.  In a brief statement that few would have expected, Parker has vowed that this year’s visit to...

We have two printers in our office.  Or rather, we were forced to get a second printer because the first one is so ridiculously stupid and awful. We’ve kept the...

………….. 12×75.com style     What a strange 12 months it has been for Bordeaux.  While we were hardly expecting Bordeaux to spend very long revelling in the glory of...

Robert Parker Can’t live with him, can’t live without him   By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor Only in the wine industry could the fortunes of others rely so heavily...

Is it worth it?   I’ve been very lucky over the years to taste a lot of wines that are so far out of my price range that if I...

5 reasons to shoehorn wine into your healthy diet   The end of Dry February is still ages away and my determination to avoid wine for the month is already...