TYSON STELZER

Tyson Stelzer is a multi-award winning wine writer with an annual readership of four million worldwide. He was named The International Champagne Writer of the Year 2011 in The Louis Roederer International Wine Writers' Awards. Tyson is the author and publisher of thirteen wine books and a regular contributor to twelve magazines including Wine Spectator, Decanter, Qantas The Australian Way, Australian Gourmet Traveller Wine, WBM, Selector, Style Magazine, WINE100, Barossa Living and Salt Magazine. 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. 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 and chairman at wine shows throughout Australia and is a co-creator with UK wine writer Matthew Jukes of The Great Australian Red Competition and The Great New Zealand Pinot Noir Classification. He is a winner of the Award for the Best Food and Wine Writing in The Australian Food Media Awards and a finalist for the International Wine and Spirit Competition’s Communicator of the Year and the Best Wine/Food Guide Book in The Le Cordon Bleu World Food Media Awards.