I am very proud to launch my Australian Sparkling Report 2018, the most in-depth report I’ve ever filed on this dynamic category, a 77 page trawl through all the hot topics in Australian sparkling, featuring full reviews of my 120 best sparkling wines of the year of every price and style. As always, I am […]

Australia’s thirst for champagne seemingly knows no bounds, and after fifteen years of strong growth, 2017 has hit a new high as a record-smashing year for champagne consumption down under. An all-time record 8.53 million bottles were popped in 2017, a huge 16% up on 2016. The explosion in ex-cellar value was larger still, mushrooming […]

Together with Musque Food & Wine Owner and Chef Stuart Oldfield and Champagne Louis Roederer, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for a very special champagne soirée in the Barossa Valley. By popular demand off the back of the resounding success of our inaugural Musque Champagne Soirée, we are back, bigger […]

Champagne is the most guarded wine region on earth and one of its biggest secrets is beginning to get out. The age of a bottle of non-vintage champagne has long been a mystery. It’s been impossible to distinguish from the label a fresh, young bottle from a stale one, to track a collection in the […]

Over the course of seven years, hundreds of tastings around the world and more than a dozen visits to Champagne, I have been privileged to taste more than 2,600 cuvées from more than 200 houses, from the very youngest releases all the way back to the grand old vintage of 1830. My list of 100 […]

Which are the estates to watch in Champagne this year? Who are the rock solid performers and who have tracked the most spectacular trajectory into the stratosphere in the seven years since I released the first edition of The Champagne Guide? At the start of a new year and the occasion of the release of […]

Publishing a full back catalogue of thousands of champagne reviews is something I have long studiously avoided. I’m more interested in recommending champagnes that you can go out and buy and drink than those you can’t. The mandate that gave birth to The Champagne Guide seven years ago and inspired five editions since was to […]

Together with Musque Food & Wine Owner and Chef Stuart Oldfield and House of Charles Heidsieck, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for a very special champagne soirée in the Barossa Valley. This event marks the beginning of a unique champagne offering in South Australia. Over the past three years I […]

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to an intimate dinner showcasing the remarkable cuvées of Champagne Egly-Ouriet. “This tiny, pristine operation in Ambonnay deserves its acclaim, capturing the profound complexity, intensity and grandeur of the Montagne’s finest terroirs, without sacrificing the precision that underlies the most revered champagnes. These are ravishingly vinous sparkling wines, […]

No other country drinks champagne like Hong Kong. This country has been bubbling along on an incredible champagne wave like no other. But all this is changing. In the weeks before the inaugural Taste Champagne Hong Kong, I take an intensive look at this unique market and discover more than one surprise. Hong Kong is […]