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...

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...

  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...

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,...

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...

Wine awards: Are they useful? By Geordie Clarke / Contributing Editor Few things are derided by wine geeks more than those shiny stickers that tell us a particular bottle is...

Reflections on the point of no return There’s nothing worse than being horribly drunk in public.  The aftermath of a good session can be extremely traumatic for even the most...

As you know, we at 12×75.com constantly have our finger on the pulse for emerging technology, social trends and hard-hitting journalism.  One thing we can’t seem to escape at the...