You are invited to the champagne tasting of the decade. Perhaps of a lifetime. 1996 was the most legendary and revered vintage of the 1990s. It has taken decades for its full greatness to be revealed. This moment has finally come. Showcasing the top 14 wines of the vintage, this tasting is devoted exclusively to […]

By popular demand, we are pleased to offer gift certificates. Our gift certificates are redeemable on the ticket price of any Tyson Stelzer wine dinner, tasting, masterclass, webinar, tour, book, ebook or any other product on this site. You can nominate any value in AUD, EUR, GBP or USD and you can choose to have […]

It’s my great honour to invite you to welcome my great friend Vitalie Taittinger, recently appointed President of Champagne Taittinger, to a tasting at your place! I have come to a deep admiration for Vitalie over the past decade in her role as Artistic and Marketing Director of her family house. She personifies more generously […]

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me and Tasmania’s top ten sparkling estates to share their best cuvées and their stories over lunch at Lumière Brisbane on Saturday 27 February 2021. Tasmania has again shone as Australia’s hero sparkling state in my tastings, topping the charts by every measure. More than this, […]

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me and Tasmania’s top fifteen sparkling makers to share their best cuvées and their stories over dinner at Josef Chromy Wines Restaurant in Launceston on Friday 5 February 2021. Tasmania has again shone as Australia’s hero sparkling state in my tastings, topping the charts by every […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Natalie Fryar and Hugh McCullough to a tasting at your place to launch their new releases including the inaugural Bellebonne-bis Rosé NV! Australia’s sparkling rosé queen crafted just 2100 bottles of the very first non-vintage under her own name. I’ve just tasted it… Bellebonne-bis Rosé NV […]

Why a champagne stopper? A reliable champagne stopper isn’t just a way of conserving leftover champagne (‘what is leftover champagne?’ I hear you ask!) but rather a key to taking your champagne journey to the next level. I never open just one bottle of champagne at my tastings, dinners and tours. Comparing multiple bottles at […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Stephen and Prue Henschke, custodians of their fabled eponymous estate, to a tasting at your place! It goes without saying that Henschke is Australia’s most famous and celebrated family winery, but what impressed me most about this salt-of-the-earth Barossa family when I spent harvest filming with […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome back Charles Heidsieck’s Cyril Brun to launch his new vintage cuvées at your place! Our inaugural champagne webinar with Cyril introducing his three non-vintage cuvées in April is fondly remembered as one of our favourite webinars of the year. Now he’s back to introduce his new […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Didier Mariotti, the insightful and innovative chef de cave of Veuve Clicquot to a tasting at your place! For an operation of such monumental scale, the refinement and consistency of Veuve Clicquot’s characterful, full-bodied, pinot-focused wines is unrivalled in all of Champagne. Fanatical about quality, Didier […]