Why we love Gary Vaynerchuk 2006 was a modest year for the wine industry. An uncertain year in Bordeaux was accompanied by the same gripes that re-surface every year about pricing and Parkerisation, and wondering... Categories Wine Blog
What wine would Jesus have turned the water into? Here at 12×75.com we like to ponder wine dilemmas of epic, and in this case, Biblical, proportions. In the days of the new testament, there wouldn’t have been a great... Categories Wine Blog
Robert Parker rates the Soft Drinks We’ve been trying to think how Robert Parker could pass the time when he finally grows tired of travelling the world, tasting fine wines and eating hairy crabs and all... Categories Wine Blog
Cork Taint Last month on pay day I bought an extra-nice bottle of red Burgundy. Not exactly DRC, you understand, but a bottle that was a cut above average on my budget... Categories Wine Blog
‘The List’ – What qualifies a Wine Merchant So once again we’ve published our list of The Top 10 UK Wine Merchants. Now for those of you who’ve not read our other blogs, we are a comedic Wing... Categories Wine Blog
Top 5 most Popular Wine Critics (according to Twitter) – Feb Edition Last month we published our list of the Top 5 most popular Wine Critics according to the number of Twitter Followers they have. In hoping to make this a monthly... Categories Wine Blog
Top 10 most popular UK Wine Merchants (according to Twitter). ‘The List’ – Feb Edition Last month, in the usual ridiculous spirit of this site, we decided to run with a list – Top 10 Most Popular UK Wine Merchants The list was compiled in... Categories Wine Blog
Is China taking over the wine world? Scanning the headlines this week in the wine press you might think so! Decanter reports that Chinese entrepreneur Jin Shan Zhang has purchased a Chateau in Entre-deux-Mers, Central Bordeaux, where... Categories Wine Blog
AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK BEDINI – Co Founder & Executive Chairman of Fine + Rare AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK BEDINI – Co Founder & Executive Chairman of Fine + Rare Mark, thank you for taking the time to talk to us here at 12×75.com [12×75.com]... Categories Wine Blog
How the Rhone Valley is benefitting from market breadth Liv-ex reported on their 28th January blog that Burgundy is fast becoming the favourite alternative to Bordeaux as the market has broadened. They mention DRC of course, and a few... Categories Wine Blog
The Year of the Dragon Baby The year of the dragon baby and a return to prosperity I loved this blog on Liv-ex – it is the Chinese year of the Dragon in which historically there... Categories Wine Blog
A fun game – “What is Robert Parker doing?” Towards the end of December I was looking for topics to write about in the new year. Most often I look at articles in the wine press and mock them... Categories Wine Blog
