In response to our new normal, it’s my great pleasure to invite you to welcome champagne’s top chef de caves to a tasting at your place! Join me for my very first champagne webinar with none other than Cyril Brun, chef de cave of the beloved little house of Charles Heidsieck. Insightful and articulate, Cyril […]

The Champagne Guide Master Edition 2011-2021 is more than just an exhaustive alphabetical reference to every cuvée in all six editions of The Champagne Guide to date, it’s the ultimate blueprint for navigating your champagne journey! Featuring: 3251 cuvées from 214 houses My score, price code, base vintage, disgorgement date, year of tasting and page […]

To all my friends in Champagne and bunkered down across the champagne world, these words are for you. I first wrote them in the introductions to The Champagne Guide 2018-2019 and 2020-2021, and I have resisted the urge to update or embellish. They seem all the more appropriate today than ever. Here’s to the resilient […]

Charles Heidsieck Chef de Cave Cyril Brun and Tyson Stelzer invite you to the launch of Charles Heidsieck Millésime 2008. Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millénaires 2004Charles Heidsieck Millésime Vintage Brut 2008Charles Heidsieck Millésime Vintage Brut 2006Charles Heidsieck Millésime Vintage Rosé 2006Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve NV en magnumCharles Heidsieck Blanc de Blancs NV en magnumCharles Heidsieck […]

Champagne is home to some of my favourite restaurants in the world, from intimate, homely dining to Michelin-starred decadence of the highest order. I’ve been a regular diner over the past decade and I’m constantly asked for my recommendations, so it’s high time I published my little black book for the very first time! Here’s […]

By popular demand, here’s my Top Ten Wines of 2019 under $20! There’s something here for everyone… Deep Woods Estate Ivory Margaret River Semillon Sauvignon Blanc 2019 Leaping from the glass with exuberant, flamboyant freshness, this is a SSB that leads with the pure lemon and cut grass of semillon and supports it seamlessly with […]

My Top Ten Australian Wines of 2019 is purposely not a curated list, but simply the pinnacle of my top-scoring wines of the year. The final line up provides a fascinating insight into Australia’s benchmark styles on the world stage right now: two South Australian cabernet shiraz blends, straight cabernets from Margaret River and Clare, […]

It’s my great pleasure to announce my top ten champagnes of 2019! For full details and reviews, see The Champagne Guide 2020-2021. Louis Roederer Cristal Rosé 2008 In any pursuit, it is only the most daring and courageous who succeed at the very highest level, only the trailblazers who risk everything and take the biggest […]

No French wine region has been revolutionised over the past two decades as dramatically as Champagne. And no appellation has needed it more desperately. For decades, Champagne has been the laughing stock of responsible growers everywhere, notoriously piling on herbicides, fungicides, pesticides, fertilisers and even Parisian rubbish to shamelessly bolster its poor vines to ludicrous […]

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to join me for dinner with Champagne Bollinger International Sales Director Guy de Rivoire to launch Bollinger La Grande Année 2012 and Bollinger La Grande Année Rosé 2012. In the new edition of The Champagne Guide, my lowest score for any of the dozen Bollinger cuvées I’ve rated […]