Alice Kendall

Pollen Street Social’s ‘Social Sunday’

On a Sunday morning in June, award-winning chef Jason Atherton hosted a series of lunches across his ‘Social Company’ restaurants in aid of the charity ‘Hospitality Action’, which provides help to those in the hospitality industry who have fallen on hard times.

Assisted by three of the most brilliant young chefs currently at work in London – Elizabeth Allen, previously of ‘Pidgin’ and now setting up her new restaurant ‘Shibui’, Mark Jarvis of ‘Anglo’ and the eponymous James Cochran – Jason prepared a five-course tasting menu for selected guests, preceded by a drinks reception featuring Coates & Seely’s award-winning English sparkling wines.

The proceeds raised went to those chefs, waiters, housekeepers and bar staff most in need.

http://www.hospitalityaction.org.uk/social-sunday/

http://pollenstreetsocial.com/

UK Wine Awards: All the winners and how Coates & Seely took top prize

Country Life together with Hotel du Vin and Waitrose sponsored this year’s UK wine awards to ‘bring long-overdue recognition to what Susie Barrie calls ‘one of the most exciting wine regions in the world’.

The 12-strong judging team was co-chaired by Barrie and her fellow TV presenter, broadcaster and wine writer Oz Clarke, with the remaining experts being Masters of Wine David Bird, Richard Hemming, Alex Hunt and Phil Tuck, as well as Christine Parkinson from Hakkasan, Rebecca Hull MW from Waitrose and Hamish Anderson from Tate restaurants.

They were joined by writer and broadcaster Jane Parkinson, M&S wine buyer Elizabeth Kelly and Corney & Barrow buyer Rebecca Palmer.

Over 300 wines were entered for the competition with seven available trophies. The tropies were for:

Best Sparkling Blanc de Blancs

Best Sparkling Rose

Best Sparkling Classic Cuvee

Best single varietal white

Best Still Bacchus

Best Overall Still Wine

Best Overall Sparkling Wine

Best Overall Wine in the UK

Coates & Seely won 4 of the 8 available trophies, with Best Sparkling Blanc de Blancs, Best Sparkling Rose, Best Overall Sparkling Wine and Best Overall Wine in the UK.

Tasting Notes for the Rose read: ‘From its antique gold colour to its rich sour cherry and truffle flavours, this is a graceful, mature rosé to sip and savour.’

Tasting Notes for the Blanc de Blancs read: ‘Fabulously elegant and refined with the seductive toasted brioche and honey notes of age.’

UK Wine Awards: All the winners, and how Coates & Seely took top prize

Fancy a glass of… Britagne? England’s vineyards seeks a snappy brand name

Jamie Doward profiles Coates & Seely in the context of their recent award for the Best Wine in the UK and of the growing market for English sparkling wine.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/03/fizz-or-britagne-england-vineyards-sparkling-wine-brand-name

Coates and Seely Sweeps The Field at Inaugural 2017 UK Wine Awards

On 1st June, 2017 it was announced that Coates & Seely’s La Perfide Blanc de Blancs 2009 had been nominated the Supreme Champion in the inaugural UK Wine Awards, beating almost 300 other English and Welsh wines for the title.

In addition, Coates & Seely won a further three Trophies (for Best English Sparkling Wine, Best English Blanc de Blancs and Best English Rose), making it four out of the five Trophies available for English Sparkling Wine

The Awards were designed by the English Wine industry, in association with Hotel du Vin, Country Life and Waitrose, to celebrate the impressive achievements of English and Welsh wines. The Awards received an incredible 293 entries, with 20 gold, 36 silver and 121 Bronze medals awarded to winning wines.

The judges comprised a panel of 12 experts led by TV presenters, broadcasters and writers Susie Barrie MW and Oz Clarke. Coates & Seely proved the stand-out producer, taking home four of the eight trophies overall.

When we began our English sparkling winemaking venture in 2009 we did so in the belief that it was possible, in England, with its chalk soils and cool climate, to make sparkling wines that in terms of quality would one day rival the best sparkling wines in the world. After ageing our Blanc de Blancs and Rose 2009 vintage wines for over five years on lees and a further two years on cork, the fruit of our labours are finally being realised and we are more encouraged than ever in our initial belief.

http://www.ukva.org.uk/competition/

Goodwood Opening Saturday

Goodwood is surely the most beautiful racecourse in the country – if not the world – and Coates & Seely is delighted to have been chosen by Goodwood as their exclusive English sparkling wine at this most quintessentially English of venues.

Saturday was the opening day of the Goodwood racing season and an excited crowd celebrated the ‘sport of kings’ with an intoxicating mix of high quality racing and with copious quantities of Coates & Seely.

We will be present at all nineteen racing days at Goodwood this season and we would invite all our friends and customers to the Coates & Seely Pavilion in the Gordon Enclosure to share it with us.

https://www.goodwood.com/sports/horseracing/

Photography by Jayson Fong

Foreign Sister’s Lunch at One Marylebone

Amidst an ocean of female glamour, comprising 350 stunning ladies from around the world, our eponymous co-founder (the Coates, not the Seely) appeared as one of only two male guests, a somewhat lonely canoe without his paddle.

What this meagre vessel lacked in glamour was happily compensated for by the sparkling Coates & Seely Rose wine, served before lunch and a perfect complement to so many glamorous ladies.

With an effulgent Tania Bryer brilliantly compering the event, over £225,000 was raised for Cancer Research.

http://www.foreign-sisters.net/