It’s my tremendous pleasure to invite you to an extraordinary experience of every one of the greatest vintages of Krug spanning 1988 to 2004 in the deepest vertical tasting that I have ever presented of this fabled house at Hervé’s Restaurant on Saturday 31 May 2025. Krug possesses an astonishing ability to mature, and old […]

Together with chef de cave Émilien Boutillat, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to the Australian launch of Rare Champagne 2012 at Montrachet Brisbane on Wednesday 11 June and Oncore by Clare Smyth in Sydney on Friday 13 June. The launch of a new vintage of Rare Champagne lives up to its name, and […]

Last month in Paris, Penfolds released its most contentious wine since the very creation of Grange itself: Penfolds Grange La Chapelle Shiraz Syrah 2021. On paper it could not be more bewildering. Grange is an official Heritage Icon of South Australia. It’s definitively and idiosyncratically Australian – the Uluru of shiraz. La Chapelle is the […]

Together with Antoine Roland-Billecart himself, it’s my great honour to invite you to the Australian launch of Billecart-Salmon Cuvée Nicolas-François 2012, Cuvée Louis Salmon 2012 and Cuvée Elisabeth-Salmon 2012 at O Bar in Sydney on Monday 28 April 2025. Besides Krug itself, there is no greater trio of prestige blanc de blancs, rosé and blend […]

I’m very excited to announce that my inaugural auction Champagne: Auctioning the World’s Finest is now live with Langtons! The line-up is breathtaking and would have to be the most significant ever presented in Australia. Set to be the largest single-region auction in Langtons’ 37-year history and the biggest champagne auction in this country, there’s […]

Together with Tasmania’s top eight winemakers, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for my inaugural Tasmanian Wine Weekend on 23-25 May 2025. I am excited to announce the ultimate opportunity to immerse yourself in the places, people and processes behind not only Tasmania’s greatest sparkling wines, but its finest pinot noirs, […]

Together with Natalie Fryar and Hugh McCullough it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join us for the 10th anniversary celebration of Bellebonne and the global launch of Bellebonne Late Disgorged and Wellington & Wolfe Noord Reserve Riesling at Supernormal Brisbane on Saturday 19 July 2025! Bellebonne is Australia’s finest boutique sparkling specialist, and […]

Celebrating the greatest champagne houses, we welcome you to join us in an exclusive champagne weekend at Spicers Peak Lodge on 6-8 June 2025 (new dates following the cyclone postponement from March). Hosted by Wine Communicator of the Year, Tyson Stelzer, the weekend is an immersion in three of his favourite champagne houses. The event will […]

Australian wine is in a very exciting place in 2024, for reasons completely missed by the headline news. This is a year in which reporting has been dominated by dramatic oversupply, diminishing consumption, waning exports, drought, frost and economic calamity. Many wineries find themselves at a particularly challenging moment in the cycle. But there’s a […]

Together with Australia’s premier wine auction house Langtons, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me as a participant in the largest fine and rare champagne auction ever held in Australia, as announced in The Australian Financial Review last month. Champagne: Auctioning the World’s Finest will be an annual champagne platform hosted online for the […]