Tyson Stelzer’s Australian Sparkling Report 2018
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 pleased to offer you this extensive document as a free download.
Highlights this year include…
- Sparkling is Australia’s fastest-growing export category, mushrooming at six times the rate of still wine exports in 2016-2017
- 2017 was the year the world discovered Australian sparkling
- A prominent Champenois figurehead declares Tasmanian sparkling is on the level of champagne
- Australian prosecco production has trebled in the past three years
- Australia has the potential to replace Italian prosecco as the global benchmark for high quality, affordable fizz
- House of Arras and Seppelt are Australia’s top sparkling houses this year, closely followed by newcomer Bellebonne
- It’s time Tasmania’s subregions are officially recognised
- Piper’s River has stepped forward as Tasmania’s effervescent epicentre
- Tasmania is Australia’s hero sparkling state, topping the charts again this year on every measure
- Cork taint is back to the same alarming levels of fifteen years ago
- Of the hundreds of Australian sparkling wines I’ve tasted in the past year, only 120 made the cut
- Thanks to one cuvée, my Sparkling Wine of the Year Under $20 is back
- Announcing the best sparkling wine under $20 that I have ever tasted
- My Sparkling Wine of the Year Under $30 is on the streets right now under $18
- A newcomer takes out my Sparkling Wine of the Year under $50
- A brand new label eclipses all others for Sparkling Rosé of the Year
- A grand comeback for my highest pointed Australian sparkling ever
- Why Australian prosecco needs our support