Celebrating the greatest champagne houses, we welcome you to join us in an exclusive champagne weekend on 7-9 March 2025 at Spicers Peak Lodge. Hosted by Wine Communicator of the Year, Tyson Stelzer, the weekend is an immersion in three of his favourite champagne houses. The event will feature cuvées from Bollinger, Charles Heidsieck and Louis […]

Australian wine is in a very exciting place in 2024, for reasons completely missed by the headline news. This is a year in which reporting has been dominated by dramatic oversupply, diminishing consumption, waning exports, drought, frost and economic calamity. Many wineries find themselves at a particularly challenging moment in the cycle. But there’s a […]

Together with Australia’s premier wine auction house Langtons, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me as a participant in the largest fine and rare champagne auction ever held in Australia, as announced in The Australian Financial Review last month. Champagne: Auctioning the World’s Finest will be an annual champagne platform hosted online for the […]

Together with Charles Duval-Leroy, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for an intimate dinner to celebrate the prestige cuvée of his family house, Duval-Leroy Femme de Champagne, at O Bar in Sydney on Thursday 10 October. Showcasing four Femme de Champagne cuvées, including the outstanding 2002 vintage, two from the sublime […]

This year’s best buys from Penfolds are Bin 600 Cabernet Shiraz 2021 ($90), Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon 2021 ($125), Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 ($130), St Henri Shiraz 2021 ($135), Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2022 ($300) and – if you happen to win the lotto – Bin 180 Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz 2021 (at a […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to Come Taste the Stars of 2008 and 2013! Since 2019, this has been our flagship champagne event to conclude the year and we’re excited to reignite this popular experience! Showcasing eight stars of 2008 and 2013, the most sublime, classic and ageworthy vintages of the modern era […]

The most advanced champagne tasting course is back! Read the full story of my inaugural Advanced Champagne Certificate, including photos and guest reflections. ‘Every champagne I’ve tasted since completing Tyson Stelzer’s Advanced Champagne Certificate has taken on a new significance because I can appreciate characters that I could never identify before! This was an absolute […]

It’s my immense pleasure to announce my biggest and most anticipated book launch yet – The Champagne Guide Edition VII! The Champagne Guide Edition VII is in a new magnum-sized format! It’s more than 50 percent bigger than the previous edition and more than three times the size of the first five editions, featuring a record […]

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for my national book launch tour to announce The Champagne Guide Edition VII at dinners in Perth, Brisbane, Barossa, Sydney and Melbourne in June and July 2024! Showcasing six of the top-performing houses in the guide, Billecart-Salmon, Bollinger, Charles Heidsieck, Deutz, Pierre Gimonnet and Louis […]

Together with Bollinger Chef de Cave Denis Bunner, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to dinner in honour of the launch of La Grande Année 2015 and La Grande Année Rosé 2015 at Brisbane’s TAMA Dining on Thursday 23 May 2024. Our journey into the incredible world of La Grande Année will celebrate the […]