Author: Alice Kendall

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”.

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.’

Hamish Anderson, head sommelier and wine buyer for the Tate, chooses Coates & Seely Rose NV as one of his three Rose picks of fizz from around the world.

He writes, ‘with the merest nod towards the colour pink, Coates and Seely’s elegant, refined fizz is lovely stuff. Thoughtful rather than shouty, its delicate flavours of raspberry, lemon zest and savoury complexity are perfectly placed to be contemplated throughout a meal.

Coates & Seely’s wines are listed and served at both the Tate Modern and the Tate Britain.