Chateau Musar Tasting – Guest Blog from BWI Ask any wine lover to list wines they have tasted from unlikely places and nine times out of ten, I bet they’ll put the Lebanon’s Chateau Musar near the top... Categories Wine Blog
Football and fine wine – a match made in heaven? I’ve been reading on Decanter.com the rumours that red-faced shoe-throwing football manager Sir Alex Ferguson has plans to purchase a vineyard in the south of France. What a delightful change... Categories Wine Blog
What will Bordeaux do without Parker? The Drinks Business reported on 16th May that Robert Parker had slammed the concept of “Parkerisation” – read the article here. It’s hardly surprising that he’s reluctant to embrace a... Categories Wine Blog
Shhh…The Online Speakeasy Some of our regular readers of 12×75.com and By The Bottle (Have you not downloaded issue 2 yet? Shame on you. Get it here – in English in portrait mode... Categories Wine Blog
2nd Edition of By The Bottle Magazine We are delighted to announce that the 2nd edition of By The Bottle Magazine, our digital wine and lifestyle magazine, is now available to download. The 2nd edition is only... Categories Wine Blog
Interview with Tony Laithwaite Tony Laithwaite, thank you for taking the time to talk with us here at 12×75.com In my opinion my first question ought to be about your rock, colleague, friend... Categories Wine Blog
Blind love and Bordeaux 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... Categories Wine Blog
What’s wrong with a little bit of snobbery? 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... Categories Wine Blog
What is it that you want, people?! 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... Categories Wine Blog
Chorus of Booze 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... Categories Wine Blog
Bounce Bar Review (Drinking and Ping Pong together at last) 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... Categories Wine Blog
Drinking to forget 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... Categories Wine Blog
