#4. The Champagne Guide VII - Tyson Stelzer
Tyson Stelzer Launches his Champagne Guide, Edition VII
The Global Launch - and thus the first public showing and availability in Australia.
Purchase your signed copy of the Champagne Guide below!
About the Author
Tyson Stelzer is a multi-award-winning wine writer, television host and producer, author of 18 wine books, international keynote speaker and wine show chairman and judge.
He was named The International Wine & Spirit Communicator of the Year 2015 (in the International Wine & Spirit Competition), the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year 2015 and 2013 (The Wine Communicators of Australia) and The International Champagne Writer of the Year 2011 (in The Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards).
In 2021 he was named the Most Influential Opinion Maker in the annual power list of Who’s Who in Australia by Meininger’s Wine Business International (Germany)
As a television presenter, Tyson is the host and producer of the People of the Vines series. He is the author of six editions of The Champagne Guide, a regular columnist for many magazines, and a contributor to Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine.
As an international speaker, Tyson has presented at wine events across Australia, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Montenegro, the US, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa and New Zealand . He is a regular judge and chairman at wine shows throughout Australia and is a co-creator with UK wine writer Matthew Jukes of The Great Australian Red Competition and The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification. Tyson is a tutor at the Len Evens Tutorial, considered to be the most exclusive wine school in the world.
He is the creator and host of The Champagne Tour, the Advanced Champagne Certificate and of Taste Champagne, the biggest global champagne showcase, with events across Australia, the UK and Hong Kong.
Tyson is the founder and director of Teen Rescue Foundation, a charity to actively discourage and reduce harmful alcohol use and its consequences among under-age teens. He has raised more than $468,000 for charities through his philanthropic initiatives over the past decade.
He is a winner of the Best French Wine Book in Australia 2020 and 2014, Best Digital Wine Book in Australia 2017, Digital Wine Communicator of the Year 2015, Best Wine Book of the Year 2014, Best Trade or Technical Writer of the Year 2013 and the Award for Best Food and Wine Writing 2008.
The Champagne Guide 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 1260 reviews in 1687 tastings from 142 houses across 880 pages and 460,000 words (that’s six average novels!). The book is more than two inches thick and weighs more than a magnum of champagne! This affords more space for more detailed introductions to each house and more in-depth reviews of every cuvée. Louis Roederer alone features 48 cuvées
across 28 pages!
Champagne takes on additional dimensions, depth and complexity in time, and so too does The Champagne Guide! Over 14 years of frequent visits with all the chef de caves, principals and growers of note, I have dutifully recorded all of their stories, anecdotes and insights verbatim in my notes and for the first time I am delighted to share these in greater detail than ever before. This book is the wild fermentation of all the behind-the-scenes secrets that bring every cuvée, every house and every personality to life. These pages open a window into the champagne world to present to you a panorama wider, more detailed and more spectacular than ever. The Champagne Guide Edition VII is your invitation to take your champagne journey to all new depths!
Accolades from Previous Edition I-VI
‘The best guide ever published on Champagne.’
Huon Hooke, The Sydney Morning Herald
‘Tyson Stelzer has risen to become one of the most
insightful and trusted champagne critics on Earth.’
Chelsea Vintners, UK
‘The most comprehensive and finely wrought and
written book on champagne I have ever seen.’
Matthew Jukes, UK
‘A truly global publication and one of the most
comprehensive of its type in the world.’
The Age
‘Tyson Stelzer has been long regarded as one of the
world’s leading commentators on Champagne.’
Anne Krebiehl MW, The Buyer, UK
‘Attention to detail is quite extraordinary.’
James Halliday
‘The definitive guide to all things Champagne.’
Drinks Trade
‘The benchmark global reference to champagne.’
goodfood.com.au
‘Like all good books, when you put this one down, you feel you know the players personally in all their Champenois resilience, variety and valor.’
Michael Edwards, World of Fine Wine, UK
Want a copy?
A Signed Copy of the Tyson Stelzer Champagne Guide Edition VII.
Alternatively you can purchase next time you’re in store, subject to availability.