Author: Alice Kendall

London Fashion Week: Pollen Street Social


Jason Atherton’s Michelin-starred flagship restaurant Pollen Street Social is offering a limited edition sharing plate throughout London Fashion Week titled Fruits of the British Sea.

Designed for two to share, the dish features oyster ice-cream, potted Eyemouth crab & Beluga caviar, Orkney sea scallop, pickled radish and jalapeno and a langoustine cocktail.

The sharing plate is theatrically served on a tiered stand, with a glass of Coates & Seely Rosé NV sparkling wine; tres chic.

The Mayfair restaurant is popular with the fashion cognoscenti, beloved for its contemporary and playful approach to fine dining amid pared-back, modern interiors.

http://www.luxurylondon.co.uk/article/london-fashion-week-pollen-street-social

English Bubbly: The UK’s splash into the Sparkling Wine Market

Recognition of the quality of England’s sparkling wine is spreading globally. Christine Sismondo describes how ‘it’s a distinct-tasting wine that expresses a unique terroir.’

Sismondo writes, ‘Coates & Seely’s gold-medal-winning Brut Reserve, for example, the first English fizz to hit Canada, has a very fine, subtle bubble that helps bring out the toast and lemon flavours of this distinctly rich and creamy wine.’

Coates & Seely now has distribution contracts in 10 countries worldwide.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/food-and-wine/wine/english-bubbly-uks-splash-into-the-sparkling-wine-market/article31441850/

The Brewin Dolphin Garden at The Chelsea Flower Show

Coates & Seely were delighted to be asked by Brewin Dolphin to supply their wines at the Chelsea Flower Show to complement Brewin Dolphin’s sponsorship of a garden designed by multiple Chelsea gold-medal winner Rosy Hardy.

Rosy’s garden was a celebration of Hampshire’s fabled chalk streams, exploring the fragility, beauty and uniqueness of these chalk-fed rivers that have beguiled philosophers, fishermen, botanists and nature-lovers over the centuries.

Coates & Seely’s own chalk-based vineyards are a stone’s throw from Rosy’s wonderful nurseries in Hampshire and are themselves an expression of the beauty and genius of chalk soil.  We were privileged to be asked by Brewin Dolphin to partner Rosy in such a wonderful celebration of Hampshire chalk and all it produces.

https://www.brewin.co.uk/offices/london/news/chelsea-flower-show-2016

 

Sparkling Wines, Sabraging and Snuffling Truffles

Tom Harrow brings high-rollers to Coates & Seely to taste one of the first bottles ever opened of the 2009 Rose ‘La Perfide’, the “UK’s most exclusive and expensive pink”.

Having sabraged the bottle with a first world war sword, he comments on the wine’s combination of “elegance and deftness with an opulence and intensity” before the wine, and the poetry, take over : “ a palate of wild cherries, cranberries and hedgerow strawberries, some pain grille and wild herb notes and a vivifying autolytic spicy tang”.

https://howtospendit.ft.com/food-drink/88251-sparkling-wines-sabraging-and-snuffling-truffles

Victoria Moore lauds Coates & Seely’s Blanc de Blanc La Perfide 2009

Writing in the Telegraph, Victoria Moore praised Coates & Seely’s two new Vintage wines, ‘Les Perfides’.

She described the Blanc de Blancs as ‘the triumph of this new pair – intensely toasty with a lemon and green apple sharpness quickening through it.’

Moore continued that ‘for sparkling rosé I prefer the Coates & Seely simple NV, an incredibly pale, pretty pink that smells of wild strawberries and has an understated, earthy, savour and gentle floral scent. Perfect heatwave drinking, actually.’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/drinking_and_dining/77000/coates-seelys-english-sparklers.html