The 2024 Tyson Stelzer
Champagne Extravaganza!
16 Champagnes –
The Most Famous,
The Greatest,
The Best Reviewed.
Taittinger Comtes | Heidsieck Blanc des Mill | Billecart - Nicolas Francois, Elisabeth Salmon, & Cuvee 200 Bicentenaire | Cristal | Dom Ruinart | Dom Perignon P2 | Dom Perignon Rosé | Bollinger La Grand Année, & LGA Rosé | Bollinger RD | Krug Grand Cuvée | Krug Vintage “08 & “06!!!
Dinner: 7:00pm
On arrival - 4 Champagnes & Petit crayfish sandwiches…
followed by - 16 Champagnes paired a 6 course degustation.
Saturday June 1st
$995
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The Wine List & Menu
On Arrival your choices of…
Louis Roederer Collection 244
Bollinger Special Cuvée
Pol Roger Cuvée Brut Réserve
Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve
Petit crayfish sandwiches
1st Course
Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2012
Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millénaires 2007
Abrolohos half shell scallops, kaffir lime, Jamon bits
Our Host, Tyson Stelzer
2nd Course
Billecart Cuvée Nicolas Francois 2008, Magnum
Billecart Cuvée 200 Bicentenaire, Magnum
Gravlax, brioche crumb
3rd Course
Louis Roeder Cristal 2012, Magnum
Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2010
Roasted grape tomatoes, stracciatella, basil
4th Course
Billecart Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon Rosé 2008, Magnum
Dom Perignon Rosé 2008
Bollinger La Grande Année Rosé 2015
Veal polpettini, caramelised onion jus
5th Course
Bollinger La Grande Année 2015
Louis Roeder Cristal 2015
Bollinger RD 2008
Mushroom and melted leek tart, fraiche
6th Course
Krug Grand Cuvée 171ème
Krug Vintage 2008
Krug Vintage 2006
Chicken confit, artichoke cream, shiitake
The Price List
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Bollinger La Grande Année 2015
Enticing, fragrant aromas of toast, lemon zest and an earthy-smoky nuance lead to a palate of subtle Bosc-pear, mango, papaya, even pineapple flavours. Lifted by fresh acidity on the medium-bodied palate, the wine keeps unfolding in toasted walnuts, honey and a dash of bitter marmalade. It’s mouth-filling, alive with acidity and full of finesse.
96 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Louis Roeder Cristal 2015
For the warm and dry vintage this has tremendous freshness and elegance. The complex nose of citrus blossom, mint, lemon, and lime zest opens up slowly as this aerates in the glass. The wine’s ample structure is still quite firm, which is a vintage characteristic, the mousse very fine but also very lively for an eight-year-old champagne. Cristal fans will love this as it is, but a year or two more in the bottle will do a lot for the very long mineral finish of this youthful masterpiece.
97 Points, James Suckling
Bollinger RD 2008
Amazing aromas of sweet uncooked pie crust with almonds. Then you smell dried apples, apricots and pineapple. Grilled fruits, too. Full-bodied. So tangy and energetic with sizzling acidity and creamy tannins. Flavourful and lightly oxidized at the finish. Smacking my lips. Agile. Ginger and spices. A touch of bitter complexity with some salinity. Extreme character that grabs your attention. 13 years and six months aging on the lees with cork. 3 grams dosage. 71% pinot noir and 29% chardonnay. Don’t serve too cold. Drink or hold.
99 Points, Jamessuckling.com
Krug Grand Cuvée 171ème
The tightness and tension of this is impressive considering the youngest wine from this is 2015 (hot and dry year), with some wines going back to 2000. Ginger and orange zest. Some creme brulee. It's medium-bodied with apple, pie crust and floral character. It's salty and zesty yet, at the same time, complex and gorgeous. Chamomile and other floral teas highlight everything. Turns rich and flavourful at the finish. Terrific release. Really takes off at the end.
99 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Krug Vintage 2008
Exceptional freshness with aromas of flinty white stones, flowers, almonds and lemons. There’s hazelnut and strawberry here, too. Complex. The palate has a long, powerful and smooth-honed feel with very assertive citrus flavours, driven by long acidity. A perfect 2008.”
100 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
”…appears young and streamlined, shows a powerful finish with enormous length, this classic beauty is what everyone has been waiting for. Champagne lovers were right to be pleased. Lively, complex and precise, carried by an unbelievable lightness and drinking pleasure. Champagne could not be better.”
100 Points Peter Moser, Falstaff.com
Krug Vintage 2006
The lusciousness of the warm 2006 season makes for an irresistible Krug, with just the right level of malic tension and chalk mineral vibrancy to complete a seamless, lingering, enticing palate. The universe of Krug complexity delivers a mesmerising landscape of truffle and molten wax. A vintage of irresistible allure.
97 Points, Tyson Stelzer, Champagne Guide
A stunner, with mouthwatering vibrancy and focus married to all of the opulence of a great 2006 Champagne. Richly fragrant, offering nutmeg, cardamom, jasmine, lemongrass, espresso and grilled nut notes enmeshed in a core of black currant and tangerine fruit flavours. Beautifully creamy and complex, this glides across the palate on the long, lasting finish.
97 Points Alison Napjus Wine Spectator
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World of Fine Wine, UK
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John Jens Lamont’s Wine Store, Perth
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Decanter Magazine, UK
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The Scores & Reviews
Taittinger Comtes de Champagne 2012
This is a fantastic and refined Blanc de Blancs. So layered and complex, with lemon curd, chalk, hazelnuts, pastries, baked apples and almond croissants. Structured and tightly wound, with almost imperceptible bubbles. Delicious salty notes at the end. Beautiful.
99 Points, James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Charles Heidsieck Blanc des Millenaires 2007
- Gold Medal IWC 2022
Trophy Vintage Blanc de Blancs Champagne IWC 2022
- 97 Points Wine Enthusiast
- 96 Points James Suckling
- 96 Points Decanter
- 95 Points The Wine Advocate
- 96 Points Guide Bettane et Desseauve
- 94 Ponints Jeb Dunnuck
Billecart Cuvée Nicolas Francois 2008, Magnum
Long have I anticipated Nicolas François Billecart 2008 and my first encounter came with Antoine in the dining room of the house in Mareuil-sur-Aÿ. I spent a full 20 minutes riveted by its evolution in the glass, moving me to tears. The profound precision and intricate, molecular detail that defines Billecart is transported to a higher level of fidelity in 2008, illuminating a brilliant display of fine chalk minerality of the highest proportions. A saline chalk core erupts from its depths, framing the most pure lemon fruit and strawberry hull; emphatically, unrelentingly and sublimely primary, without even the slightest movement toward evolution. In time, pinot steps forward in the most gloriously pure red cherry fruits. Even 17 months post-disgorgement, it is still intricately, tightly coiled, with an undeterred line and unrelenting persistence; a high-tensile spring of taut, pure energy that screams out for a lifetime to uncoil. This is an NFB with sixty years of glorious life stretching before it, and strictly must not to be approached for at least another decade yet.
100 Points, Tyson Stelzer, Champagne Guide
Billecart Cuvée 200 Bicentenaire, Magnum
There's an elegant mousse with very fine, fast-streaming bubbles and powerful, juicy flavours of baking spices, praline, and tart apples. A smoky mineral note and bright acidity offer real refreshment through the long finish, and while drinking beautifully now, it has the structure to last and will improve with age.
96 Points Tina Gellie, Decanter
Louis Roeder Cristal 2012, Magnum
”The rise and rise of Cristal over recent decades has been something to behold”
”wonderfully rich and expansive mid-palate. Chardonnay declares its presence on the close, defining a tail of grand focus and tension. Six years on lees has contributed more toasty, nutty, spicy, honeyed, ginger complexity than usual, making for an effortlessness, a confidence and an allure rarely seen in Cristal of such desperate youth. It holds every detail in suspended animation on a finish of mesmerising line and length. Malic acidity is played tactically to profound effect, ripe and full and yet excitingly tense and energetic, promising great potential – though its flavour spectrum is already advanced, so this will not go down alongside 2008 as a Cristal for the very long haul. Its mineral definition is a triumph, rising to the chalk mandate that defines Cristal, testimony first to the greatest chalk sites, second to the deep and profound reach of old vine roots, and third to the ever-rising impact of biodynamic viticulture. This is a great Cristal by every definition, testimony to a strong season, and profound evidence of the rising success of an ever more fanatical approach in the vines and the wines.”
98 Points, Tyson Stelzer, Champagne Guide
Dom Ruinart Blanc de Blancs 2010
Supreme World Champion , Best Champagne and Best French Sparkling Wine, Champagne & Sparkling Wine World Championships 2022
I have always loved the 2010 for the way it straddles the worlds of Champagne and still wine. It is absolutely glorious on this night. In fact, I could have had it for the entire meal.
98 Points Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com
Dom Perignon P2 2004
There is a lemon sherbet, popping-candy-like, mouth-energising feel to 2004, showered in lemon and lime, and accented with the Dom Pérignon hallmarks of fresh coffee bean and even a suggestion of green bean. The energy of the season flings it to a high orbit, streamlined by bright acidity and charged with glittering chalk minerality. It lingers with fantastic drive and persistence, following a line of confidence that will sustain it long into its third plenitude.
97 Points, Tyson Stelzer, champagne.guide
Billecart Cuvée Elisabeth Salmon Rosé 2008, Magnum
The electrifying energy of 2008 charges Elisabeth Salmon with a dynamism and an endurance like never before. To capture such precision and such concentration of epic, pure morello cherry and raspberry fruit and yet at every instant to remain steadfast to the elegance and refinement that is Billecart is the profound juxtaposition that elevates 2008 to dizzying heights. Testimony to the depth of south-facing Mareuil pinot noir even in a season as cool as 2008, just 9% red wine is all it takes to infuse a pretty, medium salmon hue that has taken on a copper tint in time. It confidently takes 14 years in its stride, revealed only in the most subtle nuances of vanilla and marzipan. With time in the glass, it billows to incredible heights of spice and even suggestions of fruit mince spice. A little fermentation in old oak barrels builds texture and integration more than it does a subtle nuance of jamon. Partial malolactic fermentation in a season with malic acidity as pronounced as 2008 is a nail-biting affair, perfectly played by chef de cave François Domi. Radiant acidity spirals with minerality as fine as ground glass to drive incredible persistence and build a shimmering jetstream that slices through a finish of endless blue daylight. It is dashing from the outset, yet possesses decades of potential coiled into its graceful yet commanding folds.
99 Points, Tyson Stelzer, champagne.guide
Dom Perignon Rosé 2008
The 2008 may be the best rosé ever… Incredible depth of fruit. Three-dimensional element to the wine. This is so transparent and dynamic…really savoury, fresh and incredibly Pinot Noir like
99 Points James Suckling, jamessuckling.com
Bollinger La Grand Année Rosé 2015
Offering up deep aromas of orchard fruits, blood orange, mandarin rind and peach mingled with nuances of coffee, praline and fino sherry, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and layered, with a broad attack that segues into a vinous palate framed by high levels of structuring dry extract that makes its presence felt on the sapid, nutty and penetrating finish. Given the skin maturity and inherent structure of the year, the Bollinger team elected to include only 4.5% of still red wine in the blend, a comparatively low percentage.
96 Points William Kelley, The Wine Advocate