Tyson Stelzer is the author and publisher of twelve wine books. He writes freelance articles for Wine Spectator, Decanter, Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, WBM and Selector. He pens a wine page every month for Style Magazine, is a benchmark wine reviewer for WINE100 and is the wine writer for Barossa Living. He is a contributor to Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine Third Edition, which names him the most prolific writer in the world on the topic of screw caps.

 

As an international speaker, Tyson has presented at wine conferences in the United Kingdom, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular judge at wine shows in Australia including The National Wine Show of Australia, The Royal Melbourne Wine Show, The Sydney Royal Wine Show and many regional shows. He is a co-creator with UK wine writer Matthew Jukes of The Great Australian Red Competition and The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification.

 

His annual guide with Matthew Jukes, Taste Food & Wine, was the winner of the Award for the Best Food and Wine Writing in The Australian Food Media Awards. Tyson was a finalist for the International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Communicator of the Year and for the Best Wine/Food Guide Book in The Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards 2010.