The 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.

About the Author

Tyson Stelzer is the author and publisher of thirteen wine books. He writes for Wine Spectator, Decanter, Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, WBM and Selector. He pens a wine page every month for Style Magazine, is a benchmark wine reviewer for WINE100 and is the wine writer for Barossa Living. He is a contributor to Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to Wine Third Edition, which names him the most prolific writer in the world on the topic of screw caps.

Tyson is also a contributor to the Halliday Wine Companion, reviewing the Australian sparkling wines. As an international speaker, Tyson has presented at wine conferences in the United Kingdom, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular judge at wine shows in Australia, and has won many wine-writing awards.