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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Announcing my Champagne Masterclasses 2020: The Magnum Masterclass and The Stars of 2020 Masterclass! 1. The Magnum Masterclass You’re invited to the champagne magnum masterclass of the year! Magnums are the finest expression of champagne, and brut non-vintage is the most important cuvée to declare the signature of each house style. Join us as we […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Champagne Bollinger International Sales Director Guy de Rivoire to a tasting at your place! Bollinger stands alongside Krug as the greatest champagne house of all. I’ve singled both out as the only houses to uphold my highest rating of 10/10 in all six revisions of The […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Hervé Dantan, the insightful and progressive chef de cave of Lanson to a tasting at your place! With a proactive intuition for innovation and experimentation in the vineyards and the winery, Hervé is ushering in an exciting new era in the reinvention in the 260 year […]

It’s our great pleasure to invite you to welcome Australia’s most celebrated and most awarded sparkling winemaker to a tasting at your place. Ed Carr has spent the past 25 years creating House of Arras and transforming it into one of the finest sparkling estates in the world outside of Champagne. A legend in the […]