Champagne Guide Edition VII

The Champagne Guide Edition VII is the ultimate guide to everything you need to know about how champagne is grown and made, behind-the-scenes insights into its top producers and the best buys at every price point, all for the price of a bottle of champagne! This is a fully-updated colour edition of the internationally acclaimed self-published Champagne Guide, winner of the 2011 Louis Roederer International Champagne Writer of the Year Award for the 2011–2012 edition. The book contains fully independent assessments, with profiles and ratings of almost 150 champagne producers – from the smallest growers to the largest houses. More than 1300 wines have been reviewed based on current tastings, together with insights from their producers, accompanied by full-colour bottle shots.The Champagne Guide Edition VII features a Hall of Honour ranking the best producers in champagne this year and the best champagnes of the year under $60, under $100, under $200, at any price, and the best blanc de blancs, blanc de noirs and rosé champagnes. It’s the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to champagne, featuring the latest, freshest releases, all tasted recently. In the volatility of the current global climate, the increasing diversity of champagne and the scarcity of the most sought-after cuvées across a growing number of markets make ready access to up-to-the-minute reviews, pre-release recommendations and pertinent commentary more vital than ever.

‘The best guide ever published on Champagne.’ – Huon Hooke, The Sydney Morning Herald ‘A truly global publication and one of the most comprehensive of its type in the world.’– The Age ‘Attention to detail is quite extraordinary.’ – James Halliday ‘The definitive guide to all things Champagne.’ – Drinks Trade  ‘The benchmark global reference to champagne.’ – goodfood.com.au ‘Tyson Stelzer has risen to become one of the most insightful and trusted champagne critics on Earth.’ – Chelsea Vintners ‘The most comprehensive and finely wrought and written book on champagne I have ever seen.’ – Matthew Jukes ‘Tyson Stelzer has been long regarded as one of the world’s leading commentators on Champagne.’ – Anne Krebiehl MW, The Buyer ‘Like all good books, when you put this one down, you feel you know the players personally in all their Champenois resilience, variety and valor.’ –  Michael Edwards, World of Fine Wine  

Tyson Stelzer is a multi-award winning wine writer, television host and producer, author of 18 wine books, international keynote speaker, and wine show chairman and judge. He is the creator and host of The Champagne Tour, the Advanced Champagne Certificate and of Taste Champagne, the biggest global champagne showcase with events across Australia, the UK and Hong Kong. Tyson is the author of six editions of The Champagne Guide, a regular columnist for many magazines, and the founder and director of Teen Rescue Foundation, a charity to actively discourage and reduce harmful alcohol use and its consequences among under-age teens. He was named The International Champagne Writer of the Year 2011 (in The Louis Roederer International Wine Writers’ Awards) and is the winner of the Best French Wine Book in Australia 2020 and 2014, and Best Digital Wine Book in Australia 2017.