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 […]

Celebrating the greatest champagne houses, we welcome you to join us in an exclusive champagne weekend on 1-3 March 2024 at Spicers Peak Lodge. This special weekend is an immersion in three of my favourite champagne houses, featuring Bollinger, Charles Heidsieck and Louis Roederer alongside highlights from Billecart-Salmon, Krug, Pierre Gimonnet and Taittinger! The weekend […]

Together with Charles Heidsieck Managing Director, Stephen Leroux, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for the launch of Blanc des Millénaires 2014 and a brand new, top secret Charles cuvée!

I met Charles Heidsieck’s new Chef de Cave Elise Losfelt on an intense morning at a particularly pivotal moment of her career and asked her how a newcomer can carry on the legacy of one of the greatest lineages of chef de caves in champagne history. Charles Heidsieck was one of the very first houses […]

The 2023 Penfolds Collection release comes with a particularly high level of anticipation this year, thanks to the exemplary 2021 and 2022 harvests across south-eastern Australia, hailed by Peter Gago as the two best back-to-back vintages for reds in Coonawarra since 1990 and 1991.